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Chicago House Bulletin
Issued by The Epigraphic Survey of The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago
Volume X, No. 1
September 15, 1999
By W. Raymond Johnson, Field Director
- Introduction
- The Eighteenth Dynasty Temple at Medinet Habu
- The Southern Well of Ramesses III
- Luxor Temple
- Chicago House
On April 15, 1999, the Epigraphic Survey successfully completed its seventy-fifth six-month field season. The documentation and conservation efforts of the Survey during this anniversary year were concentrated in the precincts of Medinet Habu and Luxor Temple. In the Eighteenth Dynasty Amun Temple at Medinet Habu the inking and collating of drawings continued in the painted chapels of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III, and conservation was resumed on the rooftop over the sanctuaries. The inscribed southern well of Ramesses III was completely photographed, and testing was done to determine the extent of the salt damage to the decorated wall surfaces. Across the river at Luxor Temple reference photography and statue cleaning continued in the Colonnade Hall, and conservation was resumed on the block fragments in the southeast blockyard. The Survey's latest volume, and a monument in itself, Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple, Volume 2: The Facade, Portals, Upper Register Scenes, Columns, Marginalia, and Statuary in the Colonnade Hall OIP 116, was published in the fall to great acclaim. And finally, one of our most distinguished visitors in Luxor this season was the First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Eighteenth Dynasty Temple at Medinet Habu
From October 15, 1998 to April 15, 1999 the Epigraphic Survey staff of artists and epigraphers continued penciling, inking, and correcting facsimile drawings of the painted reliefs in the small temple of Amun, on the pillars that surround the bark sanctuary, and on the bark sanctuary itself. Four new staff members were trained on-site: two epigraphers, Oriental Institute graduate students Hratch Papazian and J. Brett McClain; and two artists, Bernice Williams (wife of Senior Epigrapher Ted Castle) and Carol Abraczinskas. I am pleased to report that all four are returning for the 1999 - 2000 season. Eleven drawings were penciled at the wall by artists Sue Osgood, Margaret De Jong, Bernice, and Carol, mostly in preparation for work over the summer. Twenty-nine drawings were checked at the wall by epigraphers Ted Castle, Debbie Darnell, Hratch, Brett, and the art staff during the course of the season, and seven drawings await the final Director's Check. The drawings of the painted chapels of Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III, the earliest portion of the temple, and their facade have now been successfully completed, and await one final paint collation after the reliefs have been completely cleaned.They will be published in the first volume projected for the small temple of Amun at Medinet Habu. The second volume will be devoted to the Thutmoside bark sanctuary area and miscellaneous graffiti. The third volume will document the temple's twenty-fifth Dynasty, "Kushite" additions, while a final volume will be dedicated to the Ptolemaic and Roman additions. This season Staff Photographer Yarko Kobylecky, assisted by Ellie Smith, completed the photography of the west interior wall of the bark sanctuary and the inscribed ceiling blocks for the second volume.
The 1998 - 1999 season saw the third year of a five-year grant generously approved by the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) for conservation of the Eighteenth Dynasty Temple complex at Medinet Habu. This season's conservation work focused on the rooftop of the Thutmoside temple, inside the central painted chapel and the northern "King's Chapel," the south exterior wall of the bark sanctuary, the northern ambulatory of the bark sanctuary, and the north Ptolemaic wing.
Stone cutter Dany Roy worked from January 15 to April 15 and resumed the roof restoration begun last season. He continued to carefully clean all of the cracks between the stone roof blocks with a compressor and vacuum cleaner, and sealed the roofblocks over the bark sanctuary with a mortar compound tempered with crushed brick, a technique utilized in restoration work at Karnak and approved by the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP). On the north side of the sanctuary area, Dany restored and replaced thirteen roof block slabs originally dating from the time of Ptolemy VIII, removed during restoration work earlier this century and not replaced. He also identified three original stone slabs in the debris on the roof and put them back in their original positions. The new roof blocks were obtained from the same quarry as the original blocks, Gebel Silsileh, and were custom-cut and shaped by Dany based on a photograph of the roof taken in the thirties and published in U. Hölscher, et al., The Excavation of Medinet Habu 2, The Temples of the Eighteenth Dynasty, OIP 41 (Chicago, 1939), page 8, figure 7. Sincerest thanks are extended to François Larché, Director of the Franco-Egyptian Center at Karnak for expediting the acquisition of the sandstone. The replacement of the roof blocks restores an ancient drainage channel which directs water off the roof through a Ptolemaic Period rainspout, thereby ensuring the protection of the decorated rooms below from future rainstorms. Dany also recut and replaced six Ptolemaic roofblocks over the facade of the sanctuary entrance and three more above the bark sanctuary south wall, thereby eliminating two additional areas of water leakage. In all he relaid twenty-five stone blocks, cutting and shaping twenty-two new stones from scratch.
Egyptologist/artist Christina Di Cerbo continued to measure and draw all of the bark sanctuary roofblocks, and plotted all of the details on a master plan of the entire Eighteenth Dynasty Temple roof. She extended her plan this season to include the Kushite pylons and Ptolemaic additions to the Eighteenth Dynasty Temple, and plotted all of the traces of now missing architectural elements from those structures where they joined the Eighteenth Dynasty Temple roof. Photographer Yarko Kobylecky continued his reference photography of the roof areas before, during, and after cleaning and infilling.
This season saw the inauguration of a new phase of the Eighteenth Dynasty Temple conservation program. Painting and stone conservator Lotfi Hassan, whose previous work experience includes cleaning the tomb of Ramesses II's queen Nefertari with the Getty Conservation Institute, began the careful cleaning of the painted reliefs in the Eighteenth Dynasty Temple sanctuary from October 15, 1998 to January 15, 1999, and completed about 90% of the north interior wall of the central room. This is an area where incursions of rainwater in the mid-nineties had activated the migration of salts trapped in the walls, staining the reliefs. Lotfi was able to remove all of the surface salt, along with a fair amount of soot and dirt. The phases of the conservation process were:
1. Cleaning, manual and chemical
2. Desalination
3. Consolidation of the color layers and stone degradation surface
4. Repointing of the missing parts and micro and macro cracks
5. Final protection of the wall paintings' surface with acrylic resin
Lotfi expanded his operation late in December to include the exterior south wall of the bark sanctuary where rainwashed mud from the roof obscured some of the reliefs. This mud has now been removed, allowing artist Sue Osgood to transfer newly exposed details to the drawings-in-progress of those wall sections. From March 15 to April 15 Lotfi removed the salt from the upper, south interior wall in the "King's Chapel," stained during the same rainfall, and tested different mortar infills between the stone wall courses.
Lotfi also consolidated with the silicate Wacker OH some of the large sandstone floor blocks of the small Amun temple exhibiting signs of decay, one in the northern ambulatory of the bark sanctuary, one in the eastern ambulatory, and three in the Ptolemaic wing addition to the north of the bark sanctuary. This work will continue next season.
The Southern Well of Ramesses III
In January large-format photography of the inscribed southern well of Ramesses III, one of the priorities for this season, was launched in earnest. This well is one of two located on either side to the south and north of the mortuary temple used in Ramesses III's time to obtain sacred groundwater for purification rituals. The preserved area of the southern well consists of a short entrance corridor, an inscribed descending stepped passage to the right, and a third descending corridor to the left, now completely underwater. The last corridor leads to a submerged doorway which opens into the well shaft itself, which is open to the sky. While the carved decoration of the submerged corridor, although inaccessible at present, is in an excellent state of preservation, the reliefs of the first descending corridor, only partly submerged, are completely covered with salt, in some places up to three centimeters thick, with much of the present decoration now extremely difficult to see.
Due to the confined space within the well, the fragile nature of the reliefs on the walls, and a water level more than a meter and a half higher than in the thirties, the logistics of photographing what is left of the interior decoration (Nile gods bringing sacred water up from the well, and purification scenes) were difficult to say the least. To facilitate the photography, Senior Epigrapher Ted Castle, with the assistance of Chicago House carpenter Shayib Kyrollos Abadir, designed and built a series of wooden "pier" sections that extend into the main descending passage just above water level and provide a firm footing for the camera tripod and photographer. These sections can be dismantled and removed when the well is not being worked on.
The east wall of the entryway, on one's immediate left, is in an active state of decay. The middle course of the wall is being squeezed between the weight of the upper course and the unyielding lower course, causing the upper lintel stone to split in half, and the whole left side of the well entrance to subside. Stabilization of this area is now being undertaken with the kind assistance of the local Supreme Council of Antiquities Gurna Inspectorate. Three large-format negatives of the well's interior taken between 1939 and 1946/47 were located in our Photo Archives, and one of the shots shows the interior east wall, now damaged, and the exterior lintel block, before serious subsidence had occurred. These photoswill supplement a complete set of 35mm reference photos taken by former Staff Photographer Tom Van Eynde in 1986 that preserve numerous details subsequently destroyed by the salting of the walls. The 35mm negatives, already scanned, will be joined into full wall montages using Photoshop software. Both sets of earlier photographs will be compared to the large-format photographs generated this season to determine the rate of decay of the structure from the thirties till now.
When Yarko and Ellie Smith were finished with the arduous task of photographing every square centimeter of accessible, decorated wall surface in the well, a truly noble accomplishment, conservator Lotfi Hassan did some sample cleaning of the salt-covered, inscribed wall surfaces to determine how much stone was preserved beneath the thick layer of salt. He found differing amounts of preservation in different areas: on some wall surfaces the inscribed stone was intact beneath the salt, in others only partly preserved, and in others completely missing, with the salt alone preserving an impression of the carved decoration. We will conduct more tests and cleaning next season in an effort to lessen the corrosive action of the salt on the walls.
Luxor Temple
The Survey's latest and long-awaited volume, Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple, Volume 2: The Facade, Portals, Upper Register Scenes, Columns, Marginalia, and Statuary in the Colonnade Hall OIP 116, was finished and published this past fall. This volume completes the Epigraphic Survey's documentation of the standing wall remains of the great Colonnade Hall at Luxor Temple, begun at the height of Egypt's empire period by Amenhotep III and finished by Tutankhamun, a magnificent and increasingly fragile structure. James Henry Breasted would be pleased; in correspondence dating from 1932 he expressed the wish to the first Chicago House Field Director, Harold Nelson, that the Colonnade Hall be included in the publication program of the Epigraphic Survey because of its condition, already precarious even then. We have tried to make up for lost time, and are very proud of this milestone in the history of the Epigraphic Survey, but we are not entirely finished there yet; a third volume in the series will be dedicated to upper-register decorated stone fragment groups, the analysis of which is still in progress, and an architectural study, which will resume in a year.
This season marked the fourth year of a five-year grant generously approved by the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) for the treatment and consolidation of deteriorating decorated stone fragments at Luxor Temple. Conservator John Stewart, Ph.D., returned for a week in January to consult with Hiroko Kariya in the continuation of the project, while Hiroko worked from January 11 to February 13. All one thousand, five hundred and forty fragments recorded on our computer database were monitored for stability. Seventy-four sandstone blocks were physically strengthened with the Wacker OH consolidant in the expanded outdoor laboratory. One hundred eighty-four fragments are currently sheltered in a special, covered platform, or on covered tables and shelves, which protects them from rainfall and wind erosion. Trial desalination was performed on four fragments, which included testing of various poulticing materials. Salt crystals found on twenty-four fragments were sampled and identified.
This season Chicago House received permission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities to expand the Epigraphic Survey Fragment Project to include all of the decorated stone fragments stored around Luxor Temple. During the first half of the season a prefabricated conservation laboratory/office was constructed in the Epigraphic Survey blockyard to facilitate the treatmentof the deteriorating fragments and to function as the "command center" for the new operation. Chicago House residents Helen Jacquet-Gordon and her husband Jean Jacquet, Tina Di Cerbo, and Hratch Papazian carefully surveyed the entire area along the east side of the Luxor Temple precinct. Tina then generated an excellent map of the area which conservators John Stewart, Hiroko Kariya, and I used to plot the expanded Epigraphic Survey blockyard and fragment treatment area. During the latter part of the season four new, damp-coursed storage mastabas made of baked brick (three twelve meters in length and one seven meters in length) were constructed south of the conservation lab, extending the blockyard to the south; and six were constructed in the lower area to the north, east of the Amenhotep III sun court (fifteen meters long each). Special thanks go to Engineer Mohsen Fahmy Seweha for supervising their construction. As fragments are sorted, photographed, and moved next season and in seasons to come, more mastabas will be built in both areas, and also to the west and north of the temple. The long, meter-wide storage platforms will house fragments sorted by style and content carefully stacked by category with all carved surfaces visible for later documentation and study. Deteriorating fragments will be isolated and placed on special mastabas for future consolidation. It is the goal of Chicago House to eventually raise all of the fragments off the ground in order to protect the fragile material from the corrosive groundwater, and to develop a special database for the entire assemblage.
In mid-January stone conservator Ellen Pearlstein returned to resume the cleaning of the colossal indurated-limestone statues in the Colonnade Hall, thanks to the continued generosity of friend and colleague Dr. Marjorie Fisher. Ellen concentrated this season on the small seated dyad of Amun and Mut on the east side of the hall and will finish the cleaning of it and all three groups next year.
Continuous, above-average levels of salt-laden groundwater at Luxor Temple (and Karnak) and unusual humidity fluctuations during the last two seasons have resulted in dramatically increased salt efflorescence on the walls of the Colonnade Hall, and noticeable disintegration of the column bases. This is a truly alarming situation, in that the disintegration of some lower stone courses is now irreversible, and bodes ill for the future of the monument(s) if these conditions persist. Photographers Yarko Kobylecky and Sue Lezon took additional reference photographs in the hall this season to compare with earlier photographs of the same areas to help us guage the rate of decay.
After long, onsite discussions with me and American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Director Mark Easton, the Honorable Daniel C. Kurtzer, US Ambassador to Egypt, sponsored an historic meeting on April 16 at the US Embassy residence to address the water and conservation problems in Luxor and to discuss possible solutions. Present at the meeting were the Director General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Gaballa Ali Gaballa; Swedish Ambassador Sylvén; Bengt Hallmanns and Magda Houta of the Swedish engineering firm SWECO International; French Cultural Counselor Vincent Grimaud; Dr. Nicholas Grimal, Director of the French Archaeological Institute; Dr. François Larché, Director of the Franco-Egyptian Center at Karnak; Mark Silverman and Peter Argo of USAID; Dr. Chip Vincent, Director of the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP); and I, representing the Epigraphic Survey. The consensus was that we must all work together, but we must begin now, because time has almost run out. A second meeting was held on May 14 in Luxor with the Governor of Luxor and the Ministry of Agriculture to discuss drainage measures that might be taken to lower the water table and slow down the decay. It was decided that engineering studies, sponsored by the Swedes, will begin immediately, and will include both Karnak and Luxor Temples. It is only a first step, but it is a crucial one, and we owe a great debt to Ambassador Kurtzer for getting things started at this critical time.
Chicago House
1999 began on an upbeat note with the arrival on January 1 of photographer/Photo Archivist Sue Lezon and assistant Ellie Smith, who jointly oversaw the Photo Archives for the rest of the season. Sue immediately resumed the monitoring and duplication of deteriorating nitrate negatives (thirty-nine were duplicated this year), and both worked on refining our new Photo Archives database, designed by John Sanders and Jason Ur. Sue brought with her a special gift, generously donated by our friend and colleague Dr. Fred Giles: a Microtek Scanmaker 5, a 36 BIT reflexive and transmissive flatbed scanner with an 8x14 inch scanning area. This remarkable machine scans large and small format negatives as well as opaque photographs at 1000-2000 dpi, and Fred's magnanimity has allowed us to begin the scanning of the 17,000 negatives in our Photo Archives for burning onto CD-ROM for inclusion in our database a year ahead of schedule. Thus we are pleased to announce the inauguration of the Chicago House Imaging Center, an exciting new extension of our Photo Archives, with sincerest thanks to Fred for opening that door for us. The Franco-Egyptian Center at Karnak has agreed to assist us in our task, having just finished the scanning of their own Photo Archives, and Sue will be coordinating the scanning in both places. So far 248 4x5" Kushite block fragment negatives, 1636 5x7" Luxor Temple block fragment negatives, and 30 8x10" negatives have been scanned and burned onto CDs. By the end of the summer it is expected that the entire 5x7" holdings of the Epigraphic Survey will be scanned (painstakingly coordinated by Ellie), while the wholesale scanning of our 8x10" negative archive will begin next year. This year the only 8x10" negatives scanned were of the Ramesses III southern well, for computer joining and analysis starting this summer. In addition to the scanning, this season Yarko produced 102 large-format negatives, and the photographic team generated 148 sets of 35-mm negatives, all of which were carefully numbered and registered by Ellie.
During the first part of December Senior Epigrapher Ted Castle, when not "at the wall," oversaw the long-overdue review and updating of the Chicago House "Black Book," our epigraphic operations manual, assisted by artists Sue Osgood, Margaret De Jong, and me. Initially written as a guide for the epigraphic copying and collating process at the beginning of our operation in Luxor, many of the procedures and conventions outlined in the book have been improved upon and refined considerably in recent years. Its updating was deemed particularly appropriate at this time, when so many new staff members are being trained and our whole operation in Luxor is being reviewed and reevaluated as the new millennium approaches; it will be a valuable reference work for all staff members, new and old alike, and I daresay we will always be tweaking it, since the refining process is never-ending.
Epigrapher and Chicago House librarian Debbie Darnell continued to supervise the running of the library this season and registered 211 new acquisitions, upping our total holdings to 17, 807 volumes and 410 journals/series. In January Assistant to the Director Carlotta Maher returned to Luxor for a two-month stint of her ever-gracious brand of development work, which included numerous stimulating library talks to interested individuals and groups, and hundreds of hand-written thank-you notes to you, our loyal supporters. Her personal touch is infinitely appreciated by all, and we are enormously grateful for every second she can be with us, not to mention all the work she does for Chicago House back home. In February Oriental Institute Visiting Committee member Nan Ray returned and kindly assisted Debbie in the library, Administrator Ahmed Harfoush in the main office, and Carlotta with the development work, and was joined by her husband David later in the month, who helped staff engineer Jamie Riley with the house maintenance; they are a wonderful team. Oriental Institute Visiting Committee member Mary Grimshaw joined the Chicago House staff for a month in February/March, generously assisted where needed in the library and Photo Archives, and kept resident Egyptologist Dr. Henri Riad in line at the dominoes table after dinner. She is a very special addition to the house, and her help is very much appreciated. Our beloved Dr. Henri oversaw the library when Debbie was in the field, and continued to work through the Labib Habachi photographic archive, patiently identifying, sorting, and labeling hundreds of priceless photographs. Friends Helen and Jean Jacquet continued to lend their expertise where needed, whether it was surveying in the Luxor Temple blockyard, helping monitor the library, identifying photographs in the Habachi archive with Dr. Henri, or simply sharing their knowledge and experience with anyone who needed it. My heartfelt thanks are extended to all of our talented, dedicated friends and helpers. Without them, Chicago House wouldn't operate even a fraction as smoothly.
I am pleased to announce that Moataz Abo Shadi, CPA, who for the last two years, with the accounting firm of Coopers and Lybrand, guided us in putting together our new Financial Management System, in March joined the Chicago House team as Finance Director. He and accountant Marlin Nassim will now oversee all of the accounting for our Luxor operation, which will greatly ease the burden of the Chicago House Administrator (and Field Director!). Next season his wife Dalia and new baby Seif will join him at Chicago House during the season. We extend to Moataz and his family the warmest welcome, and look forward to many years of happy accounting together.
We were also very grateful to have engineer Jamie Riley return for the last half of the season to assist long-time Chief Engineer Saleh Shahat and me with the never-ending maintenance of the Chicago House house and grounds. This year, in a concerted effort to make the facility ship-shape for the new millennium, we replaced the plumbing in five suites of rooms in the residence, repaired and repainted the eastern dining room wall, retiled the residence courtyard, and sealed the roof against rainwater over the north and south library wings. With the help of our friend, engineer Girgis Samwel, Jamie supervised the roof work, the installation of a new kitchen drain system, and the repair of solar water heating units over the back service area and the darkroom. He also coordinated the laying of a new, multiple-line telephone cable through the garden, encased in an insulated pipe for protection and buried a meter deep, which will make telecommunications even easier and faster for us now. It is great to have someone around who can deal with these tasks so well, and his presence is much appreciated by us all, but especially by me!
December also saw the revival of the bi-annual spraying of the Chicago House grounds against insects, something that had not been done for a decade, and the lack of which had resulted in the decimation of the flower beds, particularly our famous rose bushes. Fifty-three new rose bushes were brought in to restore the old rose beds; by March they were gushing with blossoms. The remnants of the old bushes are perking up as well, blossoming like crazy and showing excellent signs of recovery.
Tourism was definitely "up" this year, and Chicago House saw many friends, colleagues, and guests stop by. In October Susan Allen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art stayed several nights with us after her season at Dashur, and reminisced about her earlier years here with husband and former Chicago House epigrapher Jim Allen. Bill Harms, Senior News Writer with the University of Chicago and good friend to the Oriental Institute, stopped by over Halloween to see our work, the result of which was an excellent article on our Medinet Habu work published in the February 1999 issue of the University of Chicago Magazine. Oriental Institute Visiting Committee member Dr. Marjorie Fisher paid us several pleasant visits during the season, including Halloween, while former Chicago House epigrapher and administrator Peter Piccione and his Theban Tomb Project crew (including wife Myrna and former Chicago House photographer Danny Lanka) came by often while working on the West Bank. Friends of Chicago House tour veteran Tom Granger came by to do research on his Masters thesis for Yale University, and Dick Cook from the Virginia Museum of Art in Richmond came by to prepare for the Hildesheim show of Egyptian art, scheduled for the Richmond museum this summer. Former Epigraphic Survey Director Chuck Van Siclen very kindly presented Chicago House with a copy of Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell, which he has recently published. On October 31, Chicago House hosted its annual Halloween costume party for all of our friends and expeditions in the area, always a popular event.
The beginning of November saw the return to Chicago House of the Demotic Dictionary's Steve Vinson and colleague Alejandro Botta for a visit, followed soon after by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Dorothea Arnold, Malcolm Wiener, and former staff member Jim Allen, whose wife Susan had visited earlier. Colleague and roving reporter for the Egypt Exploration Society Egyptian Archaeology Bulletin Lisa Giddy stayed with us a week in the middle of the month. November 17 marked the first year anniversary of the Hatshepsut massacre, and wreaths were laid at Deir el-Bahri very quietly that morning by the Japanese and Swiss Ambassadors. That same day US Consul Roger Pierce and Embassy Security Deputy Director Scott Gallo dropped by Chicago House for tea. They were on an inspection tour of the major archaeological sites in the Nile Valley to check on security arrangements, and reported that they were very pleased with what they saw.
Thanksgiving Day dinner guests included Geoffrey Martin, Peter Lacovara, and Nick Reeves (in town starting up their exciting new Valley of the Kings project); Nigel Strudwick and his Theban tomb crew; the Antiquities Development Project's Bojana Mojsov who was working in the tomb of Sety I; United States Embassy Public Affairs Officer Bill and Cary Cavness and their two daughters; old friends David and Diana Lipsey; and American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Cairo Director Mark Easton. On the last day of the month we had a site visit from the director of the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) Chip Vincent, Assistant Director Jarek Dobrolowski, and Antiquities Development Project Director Michael Jones, plus thirty members of the United Nations Donor Agency Group, who came to see the documentation and conservation work at the small Amun temple.
In December former Chicago House staff member John Darnell joined wife Debbie for a month of intensive western desert-road surveying, exploration, and documentation, for which Debbie's time, one of the Chicago House Land Rovers, and the use of our facility were donated by Chicago House in support of that important project. Barbara Adams and her University College London crew stopped by Chicago House after a month at Hierakonpolis on their way back to England for the holidays. In late December Colin Hope stayed with us for a few days on his way to Dakhla Oasis and assisted the Jacquets in the analysis of pottery found in their north Karnak excavations. The holiday season was filled with friends and holiday cheer. Dinner guests included Boyo Ockinga's Australian team working on late Ramesside tombs across the river, Nigel and Helen Strudwick and their Theban tomb team, Ted and Lyla Brock, working on the reassembly of stone sarcophagi in the tomb of Ramesses VI, and Rosalind and Jac Janssen. Stopping by in mid-month were old friends Eleanor and Richard Johnson, followed shortly by their newlywed daughter Betsy and husband Jason Crook. Our New Year's Eve celebration was small but merry, the only guests being Ros and Jac Janssen. The kitchen crew outdid themselves with a five-course dinner followed by dancing in the tea room to some of Breasted's old 78 rpm records, a fitting way to ring in the new year.
January 1 also saw the continued steady influx of other friends and colleagues into Luxor. Bruce Williams stopped by to borrow our Nubian Expedition theodolite for his work at Hierakonpolis with the Penn State team. Former Epigraphic Survey Director Chuck Van Siclen and former Oriental Institute Museum Curator Tom Logan arrived to resume their excavations between the Eighth and Ninth Pylons at Karnak, and Betsy Bryan arrived with twelve students to conduct her final season's documentation work at the tomb of Suemniwet on the West Bank. A few days later American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Treasurer Charlie Herzer and his wife Adrienne stopped by for a visit and dinner, friends Renee Friedman and Will Schenck stopped briefly on their way down to Hierakonpolis to continue their work on the site, Berkeley's Candy Keller came by for a library tour with a large group from southern California, and former artist (now architect) Jay Heidel arrived for a two-week visit. On January 11 the US Ambassador to Egypt Daniel C. Kurtzer and his family arrived in Luxor to visit and see our work. As the Ambassador was observing Ramadan fasting, we gave them an iftar dinner at sundown on January 12, which was quite festive. I acted as their guide during their two days in Luxor, showing them our work at Medinet Habu and Luxor Temple as well as other sites on both sides of the river and took special care to point out the signs of accelerating decay everywhere. Finally, at the end of the month former Chicago House staff member Carol Meyer returned to resume her work at Bir Umm Fawakhir in the Wadi Hammamat, with logistical support and food supplies contributed by Chicago House.
On Wednesday, January 27, Ambassador and Mrs. Kurtzer graciously hosted a reception at the US Embassy residence commemorating Chicago House's 75th anniversary. The event was timed to coincide with the arrival in Cairo of the University of Chicago Women's Board tour led by the Oriental Institute Museum Archivist John Larson and Director of Development Tim Cashion, and allowed us to inaugurate the celebrations in style with folks from back "home." Other guests included Oriental Institute Visiting Committee member Dr. Marjorie Fisher; USAID, American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), and Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) Directors; and various Supreme Council of Antiquities and Embassy officials, corporate heads, and friends. Senior epigrapher Ted Castle, artist Bernice Williams, and epigrapher Hratch Papazian assisted Carlotta and me in representing Chicago House. Carlotta and I visited various Cairo corporations in our ongoing fundraising efforts, and while in Cairo I made the last payment on our renovation loan, another major milestone (and a terrific way to begin the new year!). We continued the 75th anniversary celebrations in Luxor by hosting the Women's Board tour at a reception, library talk, and dinner at Chicago House, where our guests were able to mingle and talk with the entire staff. That day I gave them a tour of Luxor Temple and the blockyard, while the next day Ted Castle gave them a tour of the small Amun temple at Medinet Habu and a closer look at our work.
On February 8 Chicago House hosted a reception and library talk for the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) conservation school led by Brooklyn Museum conservator Ellen Pearlstein (two weeks in Cairo, two weeks in Luxor). The sixteen Egyptian conservators were shown the fragment conservation work at the Luxor Temple blockyard by conservator Hiroko Kariya, the Colonnade Hall indurated limestone statue cleaning and restoration by Ellen herself,and the Medinet Habu small Amun temple relief cleaning by conservator Lotfi Hassan. On February 18 Chicago House hosted a reception and talk for the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) New York Chapter tour, Ted gave the group a site tour of Medinet Habu featuring the work of the Epigraphic Survey, and I gave them a tour of Luxor Temple and the work of the Survey there. In mid-February USAID Egypt Financial Director Shirley Hunter came down for a review of Chicago House's financial management system, and also to run in the annual Luxor Marathon with 15 other USAID members (Chicago House assisted with water along the West Bank race course). She had an excellent run, and I am pleased to say that we had an excellent review as well.
March was particularly noteworthy for friends who stopped by, although to our great disappointment beloved friend Barbara Mertz could not make it out this year (she swears she will make up for it next season, and we intend to hold her to her promise). Chicago House hosted a reception and library talk for the Washington, DC chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), guided by the University of Chicago's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ph.D. candidate Nicole Hansen. KMT editor Dennis Forbes and photographer George Johnson stopped by on their annual pilgrimage to Luxor and its environs. Mark Lehner and his family were in Luxor during the first two weeks of the month shooting a second obelisk documentary, and were able to join us for a meal or two. Jason Ur spent a good week with us working on our Photo Archives database. Former Chicago House epigrapher Lorelei Corcoran stopped by on a tour, as well as friend Barbara Porter from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kaylin Goldstein (who very capably oversaw the Epigraphic Survey office at the Oriental Institute for a couple of winters while we were away) and her parents Iris and Paul Goldstein (Oriental Institute Visiting Committee) spent a very pleasant afternoon with us seeing our facility and the work at hand.
A most illustrious guest in March was the First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who visited Egypt with daughter Chelsea, and spent a total of two full days in Luxor. Preparations for this trip began in February, and continued all through March, as "pre-advance" and "advance" teams of White House and US Embassy staff descended on us for a seemingly endless round of itinerary planning and site walk-throughs. Right up to the day she arrived the itinerary was in flux, but after all the hair-raising preparations, the visit itself was surprisingly pleasant. The First Lady and Chelsea arrived midday on Tuesday, March 23, and I was among the official "greeters" at the airport, along with the Governor of Luxor General Selmy Selim, the American Ambassador to Egypt Daniel Kurtzer, and the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Gaballa Ali Gaballa. Dr. Gaballa and I were her official guides during her Luxor stay, and that first afternoon we squired her, the US Ambassador, the Egyptian Minister of the Environment Dr. Nadia Makram Ebeid, and the head of USAID Egypt Richard Brown through the Luxor Museum of Art and Luxor Temple. Debbie Darnell led the White House staff on a separate tour behind us, while our friend the General Director for the West Bank, Sabry Abdel Aziz led the press corps.
Mrs. Clinton was clearly impressed with the extent, and scale, of Luxor's ancient remains. An avid preservationist herself, she was distressed by the signs of accelerating decay which are now visible everywhere, particularly in the Colonnade Hall. While at Luxor Temple I was able to point out the all-too-visible problems caused by Egypt's wetter climate, the high groundwater, and the resultant migration of salts trapped in the stone, all causing the bases of massive walls and columns to disintegrate. After visiting the Luxor Temple sanctuary, we paused beside the Epigraphic Survey blockyard with its thousands of decorated stone fragments, where I talked about our American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)/USAID funded fragment documentation and conservation projects.
That evening I was invited by the First Lady to join her, Dr. Gaballa, Ambassador and Mrs. Kurtzer, several USAID officials, and the assembled White House Press Corps for an al fresco dinner and round-table discussion about Luxor, its heritage, and its preservation problems. Dr. Gaballa opened with a talk about the significance of ancient Luxor, after which I spoke about the documentation work of the Oriental Institute at Chicago House, our history, present programs, and future plans. This led to an open discussion of the conservation problems facing Luxor and all of Egypt, and what steps have been taken to alleviate some of those problems elsewhere, such as the USAID Old Cairo drainage project, which by lowering the water table has slowed down the deterioration process. It was such a stimulating discussion that the party only grudgingly broke up at midnight!
The next day we took the First Lady and Chelsea to the Valley of the Kings where Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) Director Chip Vincent, Antiquities Development Project Director Michael Jones, Dr. Gaballa, and I showed them the tomb of Sety I and discussed its history and conservation problems. Then Dr. Gaballa and I took them to Tutankhamun's tomb, followed by the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, and Nefertari's tomb in the Valley of the Queens. This in a motorcade 40 cars long, mind you. At about 1:30 the entire motorcade arrived at Chicago House, where we hosted a "private" sit-down buffet lunch for the First Lady, Chelsea, and forty assembled guests: the entire Chicago House staff, Dr. Gaballa, the Governor of Luxor, the Kurtzers, the Minister of the Environment, USAID officials, Kent and Susan Weeks, American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Director Mark Easton, Chip Vincent, Michael Jones, and Sabry Abdel Aziz. Credit must be given to the entire Chicago House staff for making the place shine, and the luncheon table glorious; everyone pitched in. Our kitchen staff, headed by chief cook Tayib Abdel Aziz Mohamed, truly outdid themselves, and Mrs. Clinton endeared herself to them forever by having her photo taken with them afterward in the courtyard. She said in a short speech at lunch that the Luxor trip was one revelation after another, chief among which was the University of Chicago's efforts in Luxor. She told us that she was tremendously moved by our dedication, enthusiasm, and passion for this preservation work, and was extremely proud that Americans were at the forefront of such work. After a group photo of the entire luncheon party, Carlotta and I led the First Lady, her entourage, and the press into the library for a half-hour briefing of our documentation work, projects, and goals, which was very well received. I owe a tremendous debt to Carlotta for returning to assist with this event; we could not have done it without her. After signing the guest book, picking up a "Chicago House: 75 Years" button, and accepting a "Lost Egypt" print as a memento of her visit from Carlotta and Sue Lezon (and Chicago House t-shirts), we departed with Mrs. Clinton and entourage for Karnak up the street. There we had a very pleasant, late-afternoon walk through the temple.
But that was not the end of the day. Later that evening at Luxor Temple, the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny hosted a lavish banquet for the First Lady in the first court of Ramesses II. While a string quartet played in the southwest corner, and brilliantly lit 35-foot statues of Ramesses II gazed down on the assembled Egyptologists and dignitaries, Mrs. Clinton, Chelsea, and the Minister of Culture greeted each guest in a receiving line on the east side. Ten tables were set up along the west side of the court, and I had the pleasure of being seated with the First Lady, the Egyptian Ministers of Culture, Health, and the Environment, Mark Easton, Ambassador Kurtzer, Dr. Gaballa, and the Governor of Luxor. The next day, while her mother was giving speeches at the El-Karnak Clinic and a local school, I escorted Chelsea and White House Social Director Capricia Marshall to the West Bank for a tour of Medinet Habu, where Ted Castle, Margaret De Jong, and Lotfi Hassan showed them our epigraphic and conservation work. We then took in some private tombs, after which we drove back to the Luxor airport for their departure to Tunisia. Later that afternoon I returned to Medinet Habu with new USAID Director Richard Brown for another important site visit before he returned to Cairo.
All in all it was a very stimulating visit, and the good will it generated was far-reaching and across the board. I truly believe that it was time very well spent, and that we were a credit to the Oriental Institute and the University of Chicago.
Finally, our 75th anniversary was celebrated with our friends and colleagues back home in Chicago on April 23, when I was honored to give the keynote address at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Fiftieth Annual Meeting, hosted by the Oriental Institute, entitled: "The Epigraphic Survey on the Occasion of its Seventy-fifth Anniversary." Most recently, on July 20, I spoke on the same topic to the University of Chicago Women's Board. There is much to be proud of in this anniversary year, but, as Breasted would remind us, there is still much to do. Chicago House must adapt to the rapidly changing conditions in Egypt by expanding its documentation and conservation programs in order to preserve what little is left, a goal well worth striving for. Here's to the challenge, the new millennium, and the next 75 years!
The professional staff this season, besides the Field Director, consisted of Ted Castle as Senior Epigrapher; Deborah Darnell as epigrapher and librarian; Hratch Papazian and J. Brett McClain as epigraphers; Susan Osgood, Tina Di Cerbo, Margaret De Jong, Bernice Williams, and Carol Abraczinskas as artists; Yarko Kobylecky and Susan Lezon as photographers; Ahmed Harfoush as administrator; Moataz Abo Shadi as Finance Director; Marlin Nassim as accountant; Jill Carlotta Maher as Assistant to the Director for Development; Elinor Smith, Nan Ray, and Mary Grimshaw as assistants for the photo archives and library; and Saleh Shahat Suleiman as Chief Engineer. Dr. Lotfi Hassan, Dr. John Stewart, Hiroko Kariya, and Dr. Ellen Pearlstein worked with us as stone conservators, and Dany Roy as stone cutter. Special thanks go to Dr. Henri Riad, Egyptologist in residence for the season, and to Drs. Helen and Jean Jacquet, who all shared their expertise generously. Numerous friends and members of the Supreme Council of Antiquities generously assisted us during our work this season, and to them we owe, as always, a special debt of thanks: Prof. Dr. G. A. Gaballa, Director General; Dr. Mohamed el-Saghir, General Director of Pharaonic Monuments in the Nile Valley; Dr. Mohamed Nasr, General Director of Antiquities for Upper Egypt; Dr. Sabry Abdel Aziz, General Director for the West Bank of Luxor; and Mme. Nawal, Chief Inspector of Luxor Temple. Warmest thanks and best wishes to all.
As the old millennium ends and the new millennium fast approaches, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you, the many friends of Chicago House, whose support has allowed our work to continue without interruption into the 21st century; we truly could not do it without you. Special thanks must go to the American Ambassador to Egypt, the Honorable Daniel Charles Kurtzer, and Sheila Kurtzer; Vincent Battle, Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in Cairo; William Cavness, Janet Wilgus, and Haynes Mahoney of the US Embassy; Dick Brown, John Westley, Justin Doyle, Shirley Hunter, and Jean Durette of the United States Agency for International Development; Exa Snow of Coopers and Lybrand, Cairo; David and Carlotta Maher; David and Nan Ray; Mark Rudkin; Dr. Barbara Mertz; Dr. Daniel Lindley and Lucia Woods Lindley; Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher; Tom and Linda Heagy; Donald Oster; William Kelly Simpson; Kelly and Di Grodzins; Dr. Ben Harer; Anita and Solon Stone; Roxie Walker; Louis Byron, Jr; Terry Walz, Mark Easton, Ray Salamanca, Mary Sadek, and Amira Khattab of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE); Chip Vincent, Jarek Dobrolowski, and Cynthia Schartzer of the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP); Michael Jones of the Antiquities Development Project; and all of our friends back on the Oriental Institute "mother ship." I must also express our gratitude to the Amoco Foundation, the Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Coca-Cola, Bechtel, Xerox, and LaSalle National Bank for their invaluable support. Sincerest thanks are extended to you all.
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WHO Gets Aggressive With Its HIV Treatment Guidelines
August 28, 2013
Pursuing the goal of an "AIDS-free generation," the World Health Organization (WHO) issued updated recommendations at IAS 2013 that call for earlier, safer and simpler antiretroviral therapy (ART). The WHO's estimation is that this move could avert an additional 3 million deaths and prevent 3.5 million more new HIV infections between now and 2025. Its new guidelines could increase the number of people eligible to receive ART to a total of 25.9 million worldwide.
The new recommendations encourage all countries to initiate treatment in adults living with HIV when their CD4+ cell count falls to 500 cells/mm3 or less, replacing the 350 cells/mm3 threshold in the previous guidelines, which were issued in 2010. The WHO qualified its updated recommendation as "strong" and backed by "moderate-quality" evidence.
The recommendation for initiating ART at CD4+ cell counts between 350 and 500 is based on a systematic review with GRADE evidence profiles that assessed the quality and strength of the evidence from 21 observational studies and three randomized controlled trials reporting morbidity and mortality, as well as immunological and virological outcomes. They showed that initiating ART at a CD4+ cell count >350 cells/mm3 compared with a CD4+ cell count <350 cells/mm3 reduced the risks of progression to AIDS and/or death, the development of tuberculosis and the development of a non-AIDS-defining illness; conversely, it increased the likelihood of immune recovery. (Although no studies suggest that earlier ART causes individual harm, these studies were of limited duration.)
Not everyone agrees with the WHO's new recommendations. The co-chairs of the START study argued that only four out of the 21 studies cited were appropriate, and they graded this body of evidence as insufficient to make recommendations because the size of the beneficial effect from earlier treatment was relatively small, the findings were inconsistent between studies (some found an effect, while others did not -- and the discrepancy was not clarified) and appropriate confounders were not adjusted for.
Regardless, the main point of increasing the CD4+ cell count threshold for ART initiation is probably not to protect the health of HIV-infected individuals (which could be debated), but to prevent HIV transmission, based on results of the HPTN 052 study.
The new WHO recommendations also suggest providing antiretroviral therapy -- irrespective of CD4+ cell count -- to all children with HIV under 5 years of age, all pregnant and breastfeeding women with HIV, all individuals with HIV who have active tuberculosis or hepatitis B (but not hep C), and all HIV-infected people in a relationship where one partner is uninfected.
Another new recommendation is to offer all adults starting ART the same daily, fixed-dose combination pill: tenofovir + lamivudine (or emtricitabine) + efavirenz. This recommendation even applies to pregnant women in the first trimester of pregnancy and women of childbearing age. This combination is easier to take and safer than alternative combinations previously recommended; it can be used in adults, pregnant women and adolescents.
If that combination pill is contraindicated or not available, one of the following options is strongly recommended (based on "moderate-quality" evidence):
A lopinavir/ritonavir-based regimen should be used as first-line ART for all children infected with HIV younger than 3 years (36 months) of age, regardless of NNRTI exposure, the guidelines say. If lopinavir/ritonavir is not feasible, treatment should be initiated with a nevirapine-based regimen. (This too is a strong recommendation based on "moderate-quality" evidence.)
Which other studies presented at IAS 2013 will have lasting impact long after memories of the conference itself have faded? Read more of Dr. Llibre and Dr. Young's top picks.
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Victoria Justice: 'It Can Wait' PSA
Victoria Justice signs her pledge in this behind-the-scenes shot from her recent PSA for AT&T's "It Can Wait" initiative.
"Shot a PSA 2day 4 @ATT about not texting while driving. NO text is worth the risk! #ItCanWait #TakeThePledge," the 19-year-old actress wrote while on the set.
The initiative focuses on educating people – especially teens – about the dangers of texting and driving. The message is simple, yet vital: When it comes to texting and driving, it can wait. Each pledge made to never text while driving is a symbol of commitment to be part of a movement that helps everyone make safe choices with their wireless devices on the road.
Find out more at ItCanWait.org and check out Victoria's PSA below!
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Blinding snow, at times accompanied by thunder and lightning, bombarded much of the nation's midsection Thursday, causing whiteout conditions, shutting down large swaths of interstate highways and forcing schools, businesses and even state legislatures to close.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Blinding snow, at times accompanied by thunder and lightning, bombarded much of the nation's midsection Thursday, causing whiteout conditions, shutting down large swaths of interstate highways and forcing schools, businesses and even state legislatures to close.
Kansas was the epicenter of the winter storm, with parts of the state buried under 14 inches of powdery snow, but winter storm warnings stretched from eastern Colorado through Illinois. Freezing rain and sleet were forecast for southern Missouri, southern Illinois and Arkansas. St. Louis received all of the above — a treacherous mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain.
Several accidents were blamed on icy and slushy roadways, and two people died Wednesday. Most schools in Kansas and Missouri, and many in neighboring states, were closed. Legislatures shut down in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
"Thundersnow" rumbled through Kansas and Missouri earlier Thursday. National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Truett said that's the result of an unstable air mass, much like a thunderstorm.
"Instead of pouring rain, it's pouring snow," Truett said. And pouring was a sound description, with snow falling at a rate of 2 inches per hour or more in some spots.
Topeka got 3 inches of snow in one 30-minute period, leaving medical center worker Jennifer Carlock to dread the drive home.
"It came on fast," Carlock said as she shoveled around her car. "We're going to test out traction control on the way home."
Snow totals passed the foot mark in many places: Monarch Pass, Colo., had 17� inches, Hutchinson, Kan., 14 inches and Wichita, Kan., 13 inches. A few places in far northern Oklahoma saw between 10 to 13� inches of snow. The National Weather Service said up to 18 inches of snow were possible in central Kansas.
With that in mind, Kansas transportation officials — and even the governor — urged people to simply stay home.
Drivers were particularly warned away from the Kansas Turnpike, which had whiteout conditions. Interstate 70 was also snow-packed, and a 200-mile stretch was closed between Salina and Colby.
"If you don't have to get out, just really, please, don't do it," Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said.
But some people came down with cabin fever, like Jennifer McCoy of Wichita. She loaded her nine children — ages 6 months to 16 years — in a van for lunch at Applebee's.
"I was going crazy, they were so whiny," McCoy said, adding they were going to build an igloo after.
Just south of Wichita near the small community of Clearwater, Scott Van Allen had already shoveled the sidewalks and was on his tractor clearing the driveway of the 10 inches of snow. For once, he didn't mind the task.
"I kind of enjoyed it this time," he said. "We were certainly needing the moisture terribly."
The storm brought some relief to a region of the country that has been engulfed in the worst drought in decades. Climatologists say 12 inches of snow is equivalent to about 1 inch of rain, depending on the density of the snow.
Vance Ehmke, a wheat farmer near Healy, Kan., said the nearly foot of snow was "what we have been praying for."
"The big question is, 'Is the drought broke?' " Ehmke asked.
Near Edwardsville, Ill., farmer Mike Campbell called the snow — or any precipitation — a blessing after a bone-dry growing season in 2012. He hopes it is a good omen for the spring.
"The corn was just a disaster," Campbell said of 2012.
In Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service planned to take advantage of the snow to burn piles of dead trees on federal land.
Near the Nebraska-Kansas border, as much as 8 inches fell overnight, while western Nebraska saw about half of that, National Weather Service forecaster Shawn Jacobs said. Areas in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle also had up to 8 inches of snow. And Arkansas saw a mix of precipitation — a combination of hail, sleet and freezing rain in some place, 6 inches of snow in others.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Thursday morning. Kansas City International Airport shut down by midmorning; more than 320 flights were canceled at Lambert Airport in St. Louis. Traffic throughout the state was snarled by hundreds of accidents and vehicles in ditches.
The Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City put out an urgent call for blood after the storm forced the organization to close its six donation centers and halt blood drives. It said the storm has caused it to lose two full days' supply, and it now has less than one day's worth on hand.
The University of Missouri canceled classes for one of the few times in its 174-year history. At a nearby Wal-Mart, some students passed the ice scrapers and snow melt, heading directly to the aisles containing sleds and alcohol.
"This isn't our usual Thursday noon routine," Lauren Ottenger, a senior economics major from Denver, said as she stockpiled supplies.
Alex Sosnowski, a meteorologist for Accuweather, said the storm will push off into the Great Lakes and central Appalachians, and freezing rain could make it as far east and south as North Carolina. He also said a "spin-off" storm was expected to create heavy snow in New England on Saturday, and could push Boston to a February record.
Accuweather said that by the time the storm dies out, at least 24 states will be affected.


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If you were to make a playlist from The Cure's 'Seventeen Seconds', 'Faith', and 'Pornography'...
I like all three albums in their own way but I'm going to try and make a decent playlist from my favourite stuff in these three albums and get it to flow too. I'm aiming to make make for a decent selection from their 'goth' period.
What would people choose for their own little playlist?
I'll try and make it no more than 10/ 11 tracks though.
-play for today
-holy hour
-strange day
-at night
-all cats are grey
-the figurehead
-other voices
-in your house
-funeral party
Play For Today
A Forest
Seventeen Secods
The Holy Hour
All Cats Are Grey
The Funeral Party
The Hanging Garden
A Strange Day
Not what you'd call an ideal party soundtrack.
My kinda thread
I'd include The Top as well, then you'd have their four best albums
Sequenced to start frantic, discordant and noisy, and then get more and more crushingly intense until your soul is eventually annihilated/cleansed/reborn
One Hundred Years
Shake Dog Shake
Give Me It
In Your House
All Cats Are Grey
The Funeral Party
A Forest
Siamese Twins
The Figurehead
The Drowning Man
The Top
The Top is AWFUL
Bananafishbones is pretty much unlistenable. Live versions of the album tracks were better, especially Give Me It
I genuinely used to believe it was a bad album
BUT I WAS WRONG. Total cocaine-induced paranoid amazingness
^ agreed
*except I never thought it was a bad album.
- no-class this'd this
For me it'd be:
100 Years
Hanging Garden
The Figurehead
A Forest
In Your House
Drowning Man
Charlotte Sometimes (standalone single from Pornography era, so we'll let that one go in)
Here goes
A Forest
Play For Today
At Night
Other Voices
The Drowning Man
One Hundred Years
The Hanging Garden
The Figurehead
Not sure if it would flow though - more of a greatest hits than an exercise in vibe
Some of their best stuff in this period was on ep's and singles
The Upstairs Room
Charlotte Sometimes
Also: if you're a fan of this
Then you might wish to check out Steven Severin and Robert's side project The Glove. Good record.
I find that much of the stuff on 'Japanese Whispers' is a bit too 'poppy' to sit alongside their earlier goth stuff (even though it written at the same time supposedly) - even the 'darker stuff' is a bit too pretty.
But I like a lot of it and I just so happen not to like everything on 'The Head on the Door' so it occurred to me just to make a playlist combining my favourite stuff from each.
I hardly ever listen to the original album anymore. Here it is:
Inbetween Days
Kyoto Song
The Walk
Let's Go to Bed
Just One Kiss
The Upstairs Room
To the Sky
A Night Like This
This Twilight Garden
Admittedly I've nicked two tracks of the 'Join the Dots' rarities LP too, but what the hell - it works! In fact, if Rob had decided to release something close to this, it would top The Kiss - it gives a good range of the Cure's sound. (Didn't include Love Cats though on account of not really liking it very much).
In fact, I'm going to listen to it again now.
you did a HOTD rework without The Baby Screams?
The Cure divide their fans like no other band I know
I don't think I can do this
I can pick out some favourite tracks from each album, but I'd be picking mostly the more up-beat tracks (thus defeating the purpose of the exercise) and ordering them into a playlist would be impossible.
Basically, if I want highlights from that era, I recreate the first half of the Staring at the Sea compilation.


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If you needed proof that a modern wedding could be done (and done beautifully) in a rustic space, here it is. Detailed I Do's conceptualized this bold and sophisticated design with its bright colors, sleek silhouettes, and pops of pattern yet seamlessly tied it in with the rustic, romantic setting that is Foxhall Resort for a wedding editorial captured by Diana Lupu Photography that's truly one of a kind.
From Detailed I Do's... We are so delighted to share this Southern, minimalist shoot that was captured at Fox Hall Resort with an awe-inspiring vendor team who brought our bright and bold design to life. We felt so inspired by the stately historic stables on the venue's property. We wanted to show couples who have been pining to do a rustic wedding that they can put a modern twist on that and really wow their guests while also creating a more sophisticated affect. We incorporated pops of fuchsia pink and bright red, greenery climbing the shiplap walls, and a handwoven striped linen for a dramatic but playful look. Rachel and Patrick, our sweet couple, also influenced our design with their strong features, compelling chemistry, and true adoration for one another.


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In layer 2 switching, the Ethernet frames should be received from the same port where it was sent, otherwise layer 2 switching or switching loop occurs.
Let me explain this concept with the topology depicted below (Figure -1).
Figure -1 VLAN load balancing
In the above figure, either Port 1 or Port2 is used to send the traffic, and the same port should be used to receive the traffic. The switches use MAC addresses to process the Ethernet frames. Read more


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MorphologyRead full entry
Physical Description
These invertebrates have long thin bodies made of many segments, protected by an exoskeleton. Each segment has two pairs of legs. They have a pair of antennae on their head, and chewing mouthparts. Most have glands along their body that make toxic compounds to discourage predators. Most millipedes are darkly colored, but some very toxic ones are bright.
Other Physical Features: bilateral symmetry


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Cut from a soft lightweight fabric that embraces your body in all the right places and a mix of blocked stripes in a fabulous color, this bebe bodycon dress is sure to cause whiplash. Try it with a pair of studded heels and an embellished clutch for an instant after-dark look.
- 92% nylon, 8% spandex
- Center back to hem: 32" (81 cm)
- Hand wash
- Made in USA with imported materials
- Model is 5'9 and is wearing a US size S
Rated 5 out of 5Āby 2 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5Āby the1youlove2hate why you should buy this This dress is BADD!!! Im 5'5, about 130lbs I brought the M/L and it fits wonderfully. I have big boobs and no butt but If i had to describe how it looks i would say it adds/ emphasizes in all the right places ((boobs & booty)) and takes away all the wrong ones ((stomach)). lol I love this dress and cant wait to step out to work it! March 6, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5Āby Jillian Very flattering dress The online picture does not do this dress justice. The fabric has a nice shine to it that really enhances the blue color and makes it pop. It is very form fitting. The colorblock design makes this dress stand out. I have a lot of bodycon dresses, but the solid colors get old after awhile. I am 110 lbs, and the P/S fits like a glove. March 5, 2013
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"T-Bone, Dog About Town/Clifford's Big Heart"
"T-Bone, Dog About Town"--A cute little poodle named Mimi comes to Birdwell Island on vacation, and T-Bone gets a crush. He starts trying to be the kind of dog he thinks she will like, but learns that it's always best to just be yourself. "Clifford's Big Heart"--Clifford works hard to try to make Emily the perfect Valentine to show her how much he loves her. D
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
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When is it open? During regular Fall and Spring semesters, the Language Lab is open from Monday through Thursday, 7:30 am until 3:00 pm, and on Friday from 7:30 am until 2:00 pm. If for any reason the Lab won't be open at these times, a sign will be posted well in advance. During the summer, and during winter break, Lab hours are a lot more uncertain, so you might want to call first. Although the Lab is open to all UWRF students, priority may be given to Modern Language Majors and Minors if the Lab is full.
Who works there? Clio McLagan (second from left in photo) runs the shop, and students fill out the staff. Not surprisingly, the student staff are typically skilled in one or more languages themselves. They're there to help you out with the Lab resources.
What can you do at the Lab? Tons! Not only are most of the things super fun to play with, they're great learning tools. Fluency in a second (or third, or fourth) language is becoming the number one selling point in the job market. The resources in the Lab can help you boost your skill at both speaking and understanding another language. And when you're over in Qinghai Province or the Sudetenland you'll need some global awareness -- not to mention local awareness -- to communicate effectively. The newspapers, videos, and multimedia programs available in the Lab can help you develop the skills you'll need, and build the knowledge base necessary in this ever-smaller world. Set aside some time in the Lab to catch up on international news, to immerse yourself in a foreign culture, or to get Philippe and his girlfriend back together again (hey, apartment-hunting in Paris isn't all it's cracked up to be).
Listen and repeat... The old workhorse of language study -- audio files! Get higher exam results or simply boggle at the rapid-fire speech of other countries. If your prof says listen, then listen. It's worth the time. Listening to and comprehending another language is a skill that you can develop, and the only way to do it is through practice, practice, practice. Audio files are good for that, because people don't like it when you hit their rewind button. Your classes will suddenly become far more interesting, and eventually you'll find yourself thinking in other languages. What's more, you'll get to hear how people really say things, which is something textbooks alone can't give you. And if you feel silly saying "je suis américain" out loud in the Lab, you may be able to access the audio files online to listen to (and repeat) at home.
Start the microwave popcorn More movies than the Cannes Film Festival! Well, maybe not, but the Lab houses a good available selection of videos in several languages. Kick back with films in French, German, Spanish, Chinese or Japanese. Try to follow the subtitles while still catching some of the action on the screen. Actually, you may be surprised at how much subtitles can help your comprehension -- just watch the film and if you ever lose track of the plot (this happens rather frequently in French cinema) you can always read the translation at the bottom. It's especially amusing when the translation is poor. So go on, check out a movie overnight and have a slumber party with Gerard Depardieu. But don't stop there! The Lab houses many other kinds of learning videos too. French in Action is a running classic. It's a 52-part series (each installment is only a half-hour long) in beginning and intermediate French. Find one you don't understand and watch it until you do. It's all in French, so it's almost like being there -- try to guess whether they're saying Robert or Hubert. The popular Spanish Destinos and Nuevos Destinos video series are also available in the lab for viewing or check-out.
Magazines, books, and other language materials Browse a Chinese newspaper or some German magazines. Peruse an impossibly vast collection of French novels. There is a coffee pot and a lounge for snacking and conversation. That's not enough for you? For the more serious student, there are lots of dictionaries and grammar books. There are many materials on Study Abroad, language club information, work abroad, and graduate programs, and plenty of information regarding opportunities like the Peace Corps and International Business. On top of everything, the Lab is also a very good study environment. Grab a cup of java, get comfortable, and hit some books.
Need more info? Stop on by or call up the lab at (715) 425-3121 and Clio McLagan--or one of her lab assistants--will answer all your questions for you.


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Guitar Hero Van Halen brings to life the flamboyance, virtuosity and unadulterated fun that has made Van Halen one of the most successful and popular rock and roll acts of any era. Along with 19 larger than life musical artists, including Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, The Offspring, Blink-182 and Queen, guitar legend Eddie Van Halen, famous frontman David Lee Roth, dynamic drummer Alex Van Halen and skilled songwriter and bassist, Wolfgang Van Halen, give fans the chance to own the stage and put on show-stopping performances in the coolest, all-new venues from around the world. With over 25 of Van Halen's greatest hits from "Jump" to "Panama," the set list crafted for Guitar Hero Van Halen is the perfect combination of high-energy rock that will appeal to a wide range of fans.
Only time will tell if we stand the test of time.
Also known as: Guitar Hero Headlining Van Halen
Release Region: United States
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Publisher: Activision
Release Region: United Kingdom
Release Date: TBA 2010
Publisher: Activision
Also available on: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii
Guitar Hero guitar/drum accessories
Local Multiplayer - Versus: 4
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A Kansas regulator has loosened the rules for small businesses trying to raise capital by selling stock within the state.
Interim Securities Commissioner Josh Ney announced Tuesday that he increased the limit on how much businesses are allowed to accept from a single investor to $5,000. It had been $1,000.
Ney issued an order last week modifying what's known as the Invest Kansas Exemption in the state's securities regulations. The exemption allows Kansas businesses to raise $1 million in capital within the state without having to register the stock they sell with the state as securities.
The exemption was enacted in August 2011 and is aimed at allowing small, local investors to start new businesses. It's been used to start a variety store in Stafford and a grocery in Minneola.


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The US Women's Air Force Band
Former members of The US Women's Air Force Band come from all over our country with their instruments, stands, and music. The band will perform twice—once for the general public and once for their fellow veterans.
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Cody McSherry
11/20/2018 at 6:00 PM
Cody McSherry will play a selection of music on the piano accordion and diatonic accordion. McSherry is 15-years- old and has been playing accordion since the age of six.
Chao Tian
11/19/2018 at 6:00 PM
From East to West, Chao Tian has broken through boundaries with her music. She will showcase the endless possibilities of creating music with the Chinese dulcimer through both improvisation and a dialogue with world percussionist Tom Teasley.
Presented in collaboration with the Strathmore Artist in Residence Program.
The DC Legendary Musicians
11/18/2018 at 6:00 PM
The DC Legendary Musicians presents An Evening of Gospel, featuring the Gospel Quartet sounds of Melvin Caldwell, Lady Mary, Gary Spencer, Ida Campbell with keyboardist Elder Diallo Foster Butler, Rev. Dr. Sandra Butler-Truesdale, DD serving as emcee, and special guests trombonist Mosche Snowden and bassist Tye Campbell.
A BroaderWay: Celebrating the Voices of Young Women
11/17/2018 at 6:00 PM
A BroaderWay : Celebrating the Voices of Young Women presents an evening of music, poetry, and dance that reveals how the performing arts can be the catalyst for amplifying the power of young women. We will celebrate several of A BroaderWay's initiatives, including the ASCAP Songwriting Program, by sharing work that is created by our future leaders.
Presented in collaboration with ASCAP.
Laiona Michelle & Mark Fifer
11/16/2018 at 6:00 PM
Celebrating the life and music of the legendary jazz icon Nina Simone. Laiona Michelle and Mark Fifer (and friends) offer a sneak preview of their upcoming Nina Simone musical LITTLE GIRL BLUE, featuring songs from the show and much more!
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- "Across The Fence" on WCAX-TV (video): Preparing Vermont for an Animal Disease Emergency
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World milk production has doubled in the last few decades. The last few years have also witnessed a consistent increase in the organized production of milk and meat from buffalo. Buffalo milk, its dairy derivatives, and buffalo meat, are cherished and relished by young and old alike. Buffalo farming is now an almost worldwide phenomenon.
Apart from its growth in the traditional bastions, it is also gaining a foothold in other regions of the world where buffalo rearing was never a traditional activity. In spite of the immense potential of buffalo farming, we seem to know very little about the humble buffalo, its productive capabilities and limitations.
This handbook, developed from an original text written by Mikaela Ståhl Högberg and Ole Lind: Buffalo Milk Production, provides an overview of dairy buffalo production, its scope and its limitations. It describes how improvements in processes and practices – breeding, feeding, milking and management – can have a consequent positive bearing on buffaloproductivity. By increasing awareness of both the potential and the limitations of buffalo milk production, efforts can be focused on developing effective programmes that could help this species to optimize productivity.
It is sincerely hoped that this handbook will provide an illuminating perspective on all aspects of buffalo farming. While researching this project, I was assisted and encouraged by many individuals. I owe my gratitude to them all.
In particular, I would like to thank Dr Ole Lind, DeLaval, Sweden, Prof. Kerstin Svennersten-Sjauna, SLU, Sweden and Prof. Rupert M. Bruckmaier, University of Bern, Switzerland.
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"Hopefully people will talk about it a little bit and sing his praises a little bit. He's not the type to toot his own horn, so, I think it's important for Los Angeles to kind of pay their respects for what he's done for this franchise. He kind of goes under the radar, slips under the mat for whatever reason. He's a fantastic player."
I really admire Pau and I want him to be a Lakers for a long time. I hate it how some of you are pushing anf fooling around him off the last couple of days. Its so funny because we are playing amazingly basketball since Mike Brown was released and since the new system of DAntoni got over. So the funny thing is, that there are sitll some of you guys who are whining and want an new PF on this position. Just tell me why? Just because Pau CAN NOT play solidly defense? Or just because he socres 10 in one quarter and finishes the game with 12? Its so stupid
You gotta learn to appreciate for what Pau does. He is still fighting in his heart and he is still happy to be part of this organisation. WHO CARES if he is just an 15 PPG player now? Really we dont need him to be the 2nd Star anymore. Dwight is there. Steve is there. God damn, even Metta is there (Kobe is Superstar). So I dont know why you are still bothering yourself! Just enjoy our journey right now because I believe we are building on a great streak the next days with this team!
And if there still are some of you who dont like him for any reason, they can totally have my respect but also I will not try to fall in discussions with this because its just ridicilous after all what Pau did for this team and for this organisation and he [expletive]ing brought us 2 titles! I know you always say forget the history but its FACT!!!!!
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Project Runway 2588 Holiday Frock!
Added Jun 9, 2012
by Debbie Alli
Washington, Unit...
I've been on holiday from work all week so have worked on 2 Project Runway dresses (the second is oh sooooo almost done!). Here's the first. Fabric is from eBay and was used by Topshop last summer season for some pretty dresses I remember.
I was a lazy gal and left out the toile, just lengthening the bodice by 4cm as I'm cursed with long body-itis. Annoyingly the bodice was slightly too small around the waist but the navy panel either side of the zipper (tapering from being in line with the original seam at the top, to 1.5 cm wider than the original seam at the waist) was my cunning solution to avoid a whole new bodice (see what you think!).
It's lined in fine cotton lawn as the main fabric is pretty see through.
It goes perfectly with my 50s styled navy suede platform sandals :)
Oh and sorry I didn't really doll up for the DIY shoot – next time I'll do hair and make up!
Material Notes
Embroidered cotton lawn in white with navy stitching. Lined in cotton lawn
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Sep 4, 2012, 10.50 AMby nikkihuffman
Great print!
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Sep 4, 2012, 06.25 PMby Debbie Alli
thanks – it actually embroidered in navy – a bulk buy on eBay that's made this dress, a tunic for a 5 year old, a dress for a 9 month old and I still have a little left over!
Jun 11, 2012, 02.08 AMby caterina1980
This is a fab dress, I really like the fabric the navy contrast side tabs are great nice work!
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Jun 12, 2012, 07.31 PMby Debbie Alli
thank you :)
Jun 10, 2012, 01.30 PMby imvisible
Very nice! That fabric suits perfectly with the pattern! ( And I love how your bedroom is styled) :)
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Jun 12, 2012, 07.30 PMby Debbie Alli
Thank you! Bedroom all courtesy of Laura Ashley!
Jun 10, 2012, 11.00 AMby Mary Athey
the fabric and the dress are gorgeous, love it x
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Jun 12, 2012, 07.31 PMby Debbie Alli
thank you :)
Jun 10, 2012, 08.43 AMby laracrj
OO i just bought this pattern. Very inspired to make this now, I love yours. It fits so beautifully – the tapered panel is a cunning plan that looks intentional, ties it all in nicely with the button straps at the sides!
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Jun 12, 2012, 07.29 PMby Debbie Alli
thanks – I'm really chuffed with the panel and I think it adds a little something. Sat typin gthis wearing the dress (though it was a little chilly today but I was in the office!) Good luck with yours – look forward to seeing it :)
Jun 10, 2012, 06.05 AMby chillwear
Love the dress & the fabric.
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Jun 10, 2012, 07.30 AMby Debbie Alli
Thank you :)
Jun 10, 2012, 04.01 AMby elisana
love your dress! and totally agree with zsyzu: you've been dolled up by nature
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Jun 10, 2012, 07.31 AMby Debbie Alli
Thank so much – that's so sweet! Now to find a sunny day in the UK so that I can wear it (or find a funy matching raincoat!)
Jun 10, 2012, 12.06 AMby zsyzu
I love the dress. It fits you well and it's well made. Fabric is very cool as well. No need to doll up, you look perfectly beautiful!
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Jun 10, 2012, 12.10 AMby Debbie Alli
Ah thank you – you made my night!! The fabric is amazing – I should really add a close up. And I bought 3m and still have 1.2m left over for something else :)
Jun 10, 2012, 12.05 AMby Mandy Denham
I love the print!
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I'm looking for linkage to a tutorial or site that will show me how to use the Android's wireless device to find and subsequently connect to a wireless network. Does anyone have any idea where I could find this information? My googling has turned up nothing.
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Found it shortly after posting this.
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The price of gold will continue to drop like a rock. Why?
"Because that's all it is — a rock," said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at ING U.S. Investment Management.
Well, technically, gold is a metal. But Mr. Cote's point is clear: Gold's value as a currency or inflation hedge is waning.
A recent dip in the price of the precious metal to around $1,578 per ounce represented a 5% drop from the start of the year, which compares with an 8.7% gain last year.
While the market remains mixed on the near-term outlook for gold, investors and analysts supporting the price decline are following the logic that the overall economic environment is improving and gold is losing its luster as a defensive play.
"The trends have been in place for some time," Mr. Cote said. "I've been bearish on gold for over a year, because it's a flippin' rock and it's way overpriced."
The flip side of the "flippin' rock" argument is that the good news investors are embracing is flat-out wrong and an allocation to gold still makes sense.
"This [price decline] could turn around at any minute and we want to be there for the up moves," said Joe Foster, manager of the $1.1 billion Van Eck International Investors Gold Fund (INIVX).
"Gold thrives on financial risk and we still have so much risk out there in the financial system," he added. "We could be sitting here in the fourth quarter and looking at higher unemployment and more talk of quantitative easing."
In fact, Thursday's report of higher-than-expected unemployment claims was credited with boosting the price of gold $2.30 in morning trading to more than $1,580 an ounce.
Essentially, while part of the market sees an improving U.S. economy, reduced sovereign-debt issues in Europe, an improving domestic housing market and some signs of progress coming out of Washington, investors such as Mr. Foster realize that gold remains highly sensitive to macroeconomic influences.
"All the reasons that people think we're returning to normal and don't need gold as a hedge are all the things we're still worried about," he said. "We still have a high conviction that we're in the midst of an ongoing gold bull market."
To be fair, that is exactly the sort of argument a portfolio manager such as Mr. Foster has to believe, since his fund is mandated by prospectus to have at least 80% of its assets invested in gold or gold-related vehicles.
Thus when the price of gold is falling, he tends to load up on bullion because it won't decline as much as gold-mining and producing companies.
Then there are advisers such as Roger Pine of Briaud Financial Advisors, who has a 10% allocation to gold and is planning to add more during the price pullback.
"We've been in gold in varying degrees since 2003 and we're seeing this pullback as a buying opportunity," he said. "Gold is more than just an inflation hedge. It's the one currency that can't be manipulated by the central banks."
Mr. Pine said his original and primary focus on gold relates to the emerging middle-class populations in places such as India and China.
"We see gold as a way to invest in that new wealth," he said.
The volatility of the precious metal is part of the deal, he added, citing peak-to-trough periods in 2006 and 2008 when gold prices declined by 23% and 30%, respectively.
"Absolutely, this pullback is a buying opportunity," he said.
Somewhere between the gold bugs and the gold bears there are also those who recognize gold as a simple hedging tool.
"I don't view gold as an investment because it doesn't pay a dividend or interest and, in fact, it cost you money to own it," said Rex Macey, chief investment officer at Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors.
"I think of gold as insurance against the loss of value of paper currency," he said. "But that's about it; it doesn't usually give you more than that."


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Ross M. Lence Master Teacher Residency: 2010 Events
2010 Ross M. Lence Master Teacher: James Shapiro
No stranger to the University or the City, Jim Shapiro first came to the University Honors Program 24 years ago to lecture on King Lear in "The Human Situation" course. Since that first encounter, he has been a frequent visitor and vocal supporter of the College—its mission, curriculum, students, and teachers. He particularly admired Ross Lence.
A Chicago alumnus and master teacher himself, Professor Shapiro is featured in Great Books, David Denby's respected and readable book about his "adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other indestructible writers of the western world." Denby, the film critic for The New Yorker, describes Shapiro's teaching style as "gently badgering" and sees in it "a rough kind of therapy" as the teacher "plays students off one another, not always answering their questions but asking new questions himself." Compared to a cluster of master teachers observed by Denby, Shapiro emerges as "the Coach"; his demeanor in the classroom, "combative gaiety."
Professor Shapiro is the author of influential and prize-winning monographs, most recently 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, a book that won the Theatre Book Prize as well as the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for the best nonfiction book published in the United Kingdom in 2005. He will be on an international book tour this spring, promoting Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare, on which he will draw for his Lence Lecture. His current project is entitled "1606: The Year of Lear." Professor Shapiro is the Larry Miller Professor of English at Columbia University.