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Egypt Security Forces Open Fire on Morsi Supporters*
Word on the ground from Qua'id Ibrahim Mosque, Alexandria reports of paid thugs (some of whom were members of the riot police) protected by the riot police as they attack a congregation at prayer for 'Asr, afternoon prayers Saturday 37 July, while pro-El-Sisi supporters are being given juice and refreshments elsewhere.
By Amina Ismail and Nancy A. Youssef
Scores of people were killed and dozens more wounded Saturday in the worst violence in recent Egyptian history as police opened fire on supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi.
Morsi supporters and the government offered widely different counts of the dead. The Muslim Brotherhood, the secret organization through which Morsi ascended to the presidency, claimed as many as 200 were dead, while the Ministry of Interior announced implausibly that police never fired a live round at the protesters, despite all evidence to the contrary. Health ministry officials revised the death toll throughout the day, with it hitting 80 by early Sunday. At least 792 people were injured, the ministry said.
A brief visit to a field hospital – one of three treating casualties – showed the brutality of what had taken place. A McClatchy reporter counted 27 dead laid out on the hospital's floor, and as she left, three more bodies arrived, adding to a frantic and horrific scene. At least three of the dead had been shot in the head, and the gaping wounds left the victims' brains exposed.
Over and over, hospital workers would move a body to the ground and search the pockets for an identification card. When they found one, they wrote the deceased's name on an arm. They then tied the body's hands and toes together, to prevent arms and legs from flopping around as the corpse was moved. Often the workers had put a white wrap around the head to cover the gunshot wounds. Piles of national identification cards and personal belongings, like bloodied shirts and pants, were piled up nearby.
The only movement was that of doctors who seemed to jump around the corpses, reaching for bandages and the plaster needed to prepare shrouds, where the deceased's name would be written again. One man who'd been assigned to clean blood from the floor shuffled through the scene, armed with a mop and a bucket that appeared to hold more blood than water. Over and over he went over the same spot near one head, as the blood kept pouring out.
Doctors said the injuries could only have come from professional marksmen. Ebtesan Zain, a gynecologist, said she came to help her fellow doctors only to discover she was not needed – everyone she encountered was dead.
"Those injuries had to be done by snipers. It couldn't be anything else," Zain said. "They were shooting directly in the head between the eyes and in the chest."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a statement said he had spoken with Egyptian Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei, and expressed "our deep concern about the bloodshed and violence." The statement did not blame the military for the violence – the Obama administration has declined to call Morsi's ouster a coup – but it said "Egyptian authorities have a moral and legal obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression," a reference to officials' calls for an end to the pro-Morsi sit-in that has filled the streets of the Rabaa district for the past month.
"It is essential that the security forces and the interim government respect the right of peaceful protest, including the ongoing sit-in demonstrations," the statement said.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel expressed similar sentiments in a call with Egypt's current strongman, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, according to a tweet by Pentagon spokesman George Little.
The latest clashes were spurred by el-Sissi's call last week for Egyptians to rally in support of the military Friday so that it would have a "mandate" to combat "violence and terrorism," which government officials recently have obliquely equated with Morsi supporters.
Millions heeded el-Sissi's call in celebratory rallies, carrying el-Sissi's picture. Late Friday, the military issued a statement, thanking demonstrators for their support.
The violence came just a few hours later, in the middle of the night and continuing for hours, when many here were already expecting the military to attempt to clear pro-Morsi demonstrators from the sit-in, which they've been holding since June 28.
Just how the violence began is uncertain. The official version from the minister of the Interior, Mohammed Ibrahim, who oversees the country's security services, said pro-Morsi protesters were headed toward pro military supporters and that the military simply wanted to stop them from reaching the 6th of October bridge, a key thoroughfare near Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square. The official account said security forces fired tear gas to deter the pro-Morsi crowd and that 14 policemen were injured when the demonstrators retaliated.
Morsi supporters rejected that account.
"First of all, the march was heading to Abassya and there were no pro-military protesters there," said Adham Hassanien, 31, a journalist who works in a media center set up by Morsi supporters, referring to an area in Cairo where the Ministry of Defense is located.
He also discounted that Morsi supporters had attacked the security forces in any way, noting that the Rabaa protest had been going on for nearly a month. "Why would we attack them now? We are the ones who are losing people," he said.
To be sure, many Morsi supporters were armed. And in the past month, on a stage at the site, sheikhs have repeatedly told Morsi supporters that to die for his reinstatement is an honorable, Islamic form of martyrdom.
But the number of deaths and the severity of the wounds suggested that if there had been any resistance on the part of the Morsi supporters, it was easily overwhelmed.
What the repercussions will be of the violence are unclear. Security forces killed more than 50 pro-Morsi demonstrators outside the headquarters of the country's elite Republican Guard July 8 with barely an outcry from either Egyptians or the international community. The government said then that protesters had tried to storm the Republican Guard headquarters, where some believe Morsi was being held, but witnesses in two apartment buildings overlooking the scene told McClatchy they believed the government fired first.
Egypt's general-prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, said he had ordered an investigation into Saturday's events, and the powerful al Azhar Mosque called for "the criminal responsible" to be punished. But with the majority here clearly supporting the crackdown on the Brotherhood, as the turnout on Friday showed, an aggressive probe seemed unlikely.
State television, which had trumpeted Friday's demonstrations and cancelled its usual fare of soap operas to encourage the turnout, made little mention of Saturday's violence and resumed its regular programming.
At a news conference Saturday, Interior Minister Ibrahim showed little regret, saying Morsi supporters would be dealt with, "God willing."
Ibrahim said he planned to reinstate departments to combat extremism and monitor political and religious activities that had been eliminated during Morsi's time in office. Those offices had been used primarily to target the Brotherhood.
Since Morsi's July 3 ouster by the military, at least 200 people and troops have been killed, largely Morsi supporters and Islamists who reject an Egypt again governed by the military. The latest clashes likely bolster the Brotherhood's case that the military was taking Egypt back to a totalitarian state, but many Egyptians are so relieved Morsi is no longer in power, they consider that the better option.
Morsi has been held in an undisclosed location since el-Sissi announced that he was no longer president. On Friday, a judge announced that the deposed president would be held for 15 more days as officials investigate him for murder and espionage for allegedly conspiring with the Palestinian group Hamas to orchestrate his 2011 prison break, the first time the government had offered a legal justification for his detention.
On Saturday, Ibrahim said it was "likely" Morsi would be moved to the same prison as former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who resigned two years ago after massive public demonstrations demanded he step down, and the military signaled he too had lost the public's support.
Except for Morsi's 368 days as president, a current or former military officer has ruled Egypt for the past six decades.
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Reportage has three sources, of which travel is the first - not in the sense of a tourist trip or outing to get some rest, but travel as a hard, painstaking expedition of discovery that requires decent preparation, careful planning and research to collect material out of talks, documents and your own observations.
That's just one of the methods Herodotus used to get to know the world. For years he would travel to the farthest corners of the world as the Greeks knew it.
Herodotus, however, besides being the first reporter, was also the first globalist. Fully aware how many cultures there were on Earth, he was eager to get to know all of them.
Why? The way he put it, you can learn your own culture best only by familiarising yourself with others; your culture will best reveal its depth, value and sense when you find its mirror reflection in other cultures, as they shed the best and most penetrating light on your own.
What did he accomplish with his comparative method of confrontation and mirror reflection?
Well, Herodotus taught his countrymen modesty, tempered their conceit and hubris, the feeling of superiority and arrogance toward non-Greeks.
Thus he tried by means of his reportage to consolidate the most important message of Greek ethics: restraint, a sense of proportion and moderation.
Besides travel, another source of reportage is other people, those encountered on the road, and those we travel to meet to get them to convey their knowledge, tales and opinions to us.
Here Herodotus turns out to be the master extraordinaire. Judging by what he writes, whom he meets and the way he talks to them, Herodotus comes across as a man open and full of goodwill toward others, making contact with strangers easily, curious about the world, investigative and hungry for knowledge.
His attitude and bearing show what is essentially important to a reporter: respect for another man, his dignity and worth. He listens carefully to his heartbeat and the way thoughts cross his mind.
Herodotus notices the weakness of human memory, aware that his interlocutors relate different and often contradictory versions of the same event. Trying to be impartial and objective, he conscientiously leaves it for us to decide about the most disparate versions of the same story.
Hence his reports are multidimensional, rich, vivid and palpable.
Herodotus is a tireless reporter. He wants to know, no matter the price he pays, and wants his knowledge to be the most authentic, the closest to the truth. This conscientiousness sets a good example of the responsibility we assume, for all that we do.
The third source of reportage is the reporter's homework: to read what has been written and endures in texts, inscriptions or graphic symbols on the topic a reporter is working on.
Herodotus also teaches us how to be investigative and careful. In his times, the amount of material he could rely on was far smaller than that available today. So whatever he managed to collect was precious.
He naturally was well read in Homer, Hesiod, poets and playwrights. He would decipher inscriptions on temples and town walls. Everything was important, potentially able to reveal a message or new meanings.
By his own example Herodotus showed that a reporter should be a careful observer, sensitive to details seemingly insignificant and banal, which may turn out to be symbols or signs of worlds much more important.
"All people have a natural tendency to acquire knowledge," runs the sentence with which Aristotle, a little younger than Herodotus, begins his Metaphysics, adding that it is the eye that plays the most important role, because it perceives differences best. We also know the importance of the eye of the reporter, focused, penetrating, noticing what seems invisible.
However, the snag is that to notice what is the most essential, you often have to be on the spot. And to get there, you have to travel. And because of those travels, his presence on the spot resulted in Herodotus's great reportage about the world that we have been reading for 25 centuries.
Reportage is created out of what Aristotle called the "tendency to acquire knowledge". And in this human desire, a reporter's passion meets the expectations of his readers, listeners and spectators. A reporter, driven by the "tendency to acquire knowledge", tries to meet the curiosity about the world of his readers halfway, their own "tendency to acquire knowledge".
And here is why good reportage is so popular in the contemporary world.
The contemporary man, living in the world conjured up by the media of illusions and appearances, simulacra and fables, feeling instinctively that he is fed untruth, hypocrisy, falsehood and virtual manipulation, seeks something that has the power of truth and reality.
I see that during my meetings with readers. When I tell about one of my reporter's adventures, someone is likely to interrupt me with the question: "Is that authentic?"
I assure the person that I have really been there. And then a wave of relief rolls across the audience and a friendly atmosphere sets in. Why, they're taking part in something real, since someone who has witnessed the event is actually standing right in front of them.
What is a literary reportage, then? How to define and describe it? It's not an easy matter, as we are living at the moment of "blurred genres", a new species. Working in the countries of the Third World for quite a long time, as a correspondent of a press agency, I had this unsatisfied feeling resulting from the paucity of the language of press information when confronting the rich, full-of-variety, colourful, often hard-to-define reality of those cultures, customs or beliefs.
The everyday language of information that we use in the media is very poor, stereotypical and formulaic.
For this reason, huge areas of reality we deal with are beyond the sphere of description, which the formulaic message is unable to convey.
So what is the way out of this cul-de-sac of unsatisfied feelings and frustration? I availed myself of the suggestion of such writers as Truman Capote, Norman Mailer and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose writing straddles the border of fiction and press chronicle.
They introduced the term "New Journalism", "nuevo periodismo". By this they meant the kind of writing in which authentic events, true stories and accidents are described with language containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added colour.
So this creative and enriched combination of two different manners and techniques of communicating and describing make up a literary reportage.
This has turned out to be a happy and seminal "blurring of genres", especially in the light of the progress in science and technology, which has enriched and incredibly differentiated the picture of the world, ever more difficult to describe with language.
I saw it for myself writing The Shadow of the Sun .
How to describe a jungle with the language of press information? This is downright impossible unless you reach for the treasury of belles lettres, for its rich variety of expression.
On the other hand, today literature avails itself continuously of reportage production. Notice how many reporters are characters of fiction, how many descriptions are typically in the reporter's vein among classically fictitious fragments and dialogues.
In this multicultural world, people from other cultures demand that they be treated as equal, command the same respect and be in our good graces.
It is a well-established given that there are no higher or lower cultures and what makes a difference is just the result of their specific geographical and historical conditions.
The problem is that we know little about other cultures and, rather than decent knowledge, we are likely to make do with easy and false stereotypes.
This is what Herodotus understood all too well. Better still, he knew that only mutual knowledge of each other makes understanding and connecting possible, as the only way to peace and harmony, co-operation and exchange.
With this assumption in mind, a reporter takes a plunge into the hive of activity: travels, investigates, takes notes, explains why others behave differently from us and shows that those other ways of existence and understanding of the world have a logic of their own, are sensible and should be accepted rather than generate aggression and war.
So it's plain to see what responsibility lies with our work, reportage.
Plying our trade, we are not just men or women of writing pursuits, but also some kind of missionaries, translators and messengers. We do not translate from one text into another, but from one culture into another in order to make them mutually better understood and thereby closer.
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Map Collections as National Treasures
Esko Häkli
Maps and cartographic presentations have always been highly valued, for the vital information they contain. Maps have been important to governments, companies and individuals. They have been used to defend and argue for political, military, economic and many other interests.
The development from private map production towards national topographic surveys was long and interesting in many ways. It so happened that in a number of countries government surveyors became a new element in society. They were working for a common cause, national solidarity, and not so much for individual interests such as the rights and liberties of landholders. Surveyors became agents for nation-building without always being aware of it. In other words, since national topographic surveying is an important factor consolidating national identity collections of maps, both old and new, are national treasures
par excellence
The development of mapping in Finland affords plenty of evidence for this view. Even if Finland, established in 1917, is rather recent an independent state, as a geographical entity it has been shown on maps as long as its neighbours. Until 1809 the country was an integral part of Sweden and was therefore included in its maps. In 1809 the status of Finland changed, which also influenced its depiction on maps.
The history of the ordnance survey in Finland starts in 1633 when a Corps of Surveyor-Geometers was organized in Sweden under the direction of Andreas Bureus (1571-1646). One of these surveyors was located in Finland. Bureus was a remarkable man. He made the famous map of Sweden of 1626, which was one of the first maps based on measurement. In addition to topographical maps, the new organization also prepared cadastral surveys. Mapping for military purposes was a different matter and was kept in other hands.
During the period of autonomy, as the period from 1809 to 1917 is called, Finland was a political entity of its own and maps were published showing only Finland. The traditions of the Swedish period were continued and the organization of the Finnish ordnance survey was developed. The emerging needs of the society meant increased production of printed maps. Not only did the number of maps increase, but also new types of maps were prepared. At the same time, Russian military mapping took place and certain types of map were reserved for military purposes only. Although the work was in the hands of Finnish officers in the Russian service, access to these maps was reserved for Russian military needs.
Before 1809 nationalism was not a significant factor in Finland. People were citizens of their parishes and villages and not only the King but also other parts of the country were far away. During the Russian period after 1809 views changed. The big problem, however, was how to identify oneself with the country as a whole without knowing anything about circumstances beyond one's own immediate vicinity. During a time without easy communications, photography and mass media, nationhood and the feeling of solidarity with people in other parts of the large country were not apparent. Geographical knowledge had to be created and distributed. The well-known writer and professor of history and geography at the Helsinki University, Zacharias Topelius (1818-1898), was the man who contributed greatly to the creation of the Finnish identity. For nearly a century, young people read his books, and he also edited illustrated accounts of the country in which the typical Finnish landscapes were shown as beautiful drawings. An increasing number of Finns, at least among the educated classes, became aware of how their country looked, even if they had no opportunity to visit the sites they had seen in Topelius' books. Pictures depicted the country more easily than the more abstract maps. Nevertheless, very soon everybody came to know the shape of Finland on the map, resembling a young maid. It goes without saying that a relationship with a young maid is not a matter of business, but is more personal, more or less a question of love.
In 1899 the Finnish Geographical Society published the first national atlas of the world, consisting mainly of thematic maps. On the one hand, its publication illustrated the development of map-making. Topographical maps were no longer enough; geographers had to go deeper. On the other hand, the political message had become more important. Though still a part of the Russian empire, Finland wanted to show itself in the world, maintaining that there was a Finnish nation with its own culture and identity. The first edition of the atlas was on display both at the International Geographical Congress in Berlin and the World Exposition in Paris. This
Atlas de Finlande
was also well received outside Finland, and a new edition was published in 1911. Since then new editions have been published in 1925 and 1960, the fifth appearing in 1994. This edition was printed in 25 parts and may be the last of its kind. To celebrate the centenary of the atlas, a sixth edition appeared in 1999. This, however, is entirely different from its predecessors, not a scholarly publication but a reference work.
The National Atlas was a powerful political statement. A more recent example of the close relationship between maps and political (or security) issues occurred at the end of the Second World War. In October 1944 the Allied Control Commission required that all maps of the scale 1:500,000 or greater of the areas which were ceded to the Soviet Union be delivered to the Soviet Union, as well as the plates used in printing them. Only a restricted number of institutions had the right to keep their copies. Helsinki University Library, for instance, was not among them. In a short time, about 16 million copies of maps and great number of aerial photographs, about 40 railway wagons full, were delivered. In 1989 all restrictions were lifted and the maps can now be reprinted and distributed freely. The 40 wagons have, of course, not been returned. With the help of private collectors, the Library succeeded in replacing most of the losses, actually before the limitations had officially been removed.
The map collections which are kept in Helsinki University Library, the National Library of Finland, can be divided into three main groups:
the Finnish national collection
collections of old (historical) maps
research collections of foreign maps
Collections of Finnish Maps
The Library receives all maps printed in Finland as legal deposit. The size of the Finnish map collection is about 70,000 individual maps (sheets). About 900 atlases and a small number of maps of other types are also kept in the collection. About 75 % of the maps are catalogued in the Fennica database, which is the national bibliography of Finland. For cataloguing purposes, the rich collections of the Department of Geography of the University have also been consulted. Retro-cataloguing is in progress.
For obvious reasons handwritten maps is a different matter. Maps produced by the official surveyors are kept partly in the National Archives, and partly in the archives of the National Land Survey and its district offices. Military maps from the Swedish period can be found in the Military Archives (Krigsarkivet) in Stockholm.
Old Maps: The Nordenskiöld Collection
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901) was a Finnish scientist, explorer and historian of cartography who made his life's work in Sweden. His personal history provides us with several highlights which are closely connected with the history of map-making. One of the reasons why Nordenskiöld became an explorer who devoted much of his time and effort to the arctic waters was connected with the project which somewhat later acquired the name "European Degree Measurement" and which was intended to measure the shape of the earth and to see whether it was flattened at the poles. Spitzbergen was chosen since triangulation had already been done on the European continent for some time and a need was felt to continue it as close to the North Pole as possible. The Swedish scientist Otto Torell took the young Nordenskiöld with him to Spitzbergen in 1858.
During his second expedition, 1861 Torell started preparations for triangulation there. The work was continued by an expedition three years later, this time led by Nordenskiöld. Although actual triangulation was finally not undertaken, Nordenskiöld made a great contribution to the mapping of the islands. All in all he made five expeditions to Spitzbergen.
While sailing through the North-East Passage in 1878-1880 Nordenskiöld made important improvements to the maps of the Siberian coast. He had the latest maps of the region at his disposal; charts of the whole Siberian coastline were not available at that time. A well-known example of the accuracy, or rather inaccuracy of the existing maps was the map of the Taimyr peninsula of 1876. The route of Nordenskiöld's vessel Vega, when plotted on the map, went across the peninsula itself, because its location on the map in the east-west direction was not correct. This failure was caused by an incorrect measurement of the longitude. Although the chronometer had been invented a hundred years before, nobody since then had made new measurements in that remote region. Based on Nordenskiöld's information the German geographer August Hermann Petermann (1822-1878) published a revised map of the area in his
Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen
, thus making the information available to all.
These two examples illustrate Nordenskiöld's activities as cartographer. But he was also a historian of cartography who studied the work of cartographers before him. He devoted the last twenty years of his life to research into old maps. It has been maintained that he was actually the founder of the history of cartography. His most important historical work, the
, is still being used. His main achievement was the clarification of the Ptolemaic tradition. Research into the history of cartography was also the reason why he accumulated his unique map collection. Comparative research into the history of map-making would have been impossible without a comprehensive collection in which all the necessary maps and their various editions were always available. That was not the case in libraries at that time, not even in the big ones.
In creating his collection, Nordenskiöld focused on pre-1800 maps. Instead of loose-leaf maps he wanted to purchase original volumes, which at that time was still possible. About 24,000 individual maps as well as about 500 atlases made before 1800 belong to the collection together with a large scientific library. About 4,000 of the maps were printed before 1600. The collection also contains Nordenskiöld's correspondence with booksellers and other people and institutions who were engaged in creating it, whereas Nordenskiöld's scientific archives are kept in the Royal Academy of Science in Stockholm. In Helsinki we also have the family archives, which, include the letters of Nordenskiöld to his father.
The Nordenskiöld Collection was purchased in 1902 by the Helsinki University Library and is now one of the national cultural treasures. It is also included in the UNESCO
Memory of the World Register
The collection is reasonably well-known in Finland, which was demonstrated in connection with the unfortunate map theft in winter 2001. Public interest in the case was considerable and the media reported the progress of the investigations frequently. On the other hand, hardly any of the general public was aware of the real market value of the volumes of Ptolemy. The most precious map of the two, which we obviously have lost forever, was from the edition of Ptolemy of 1486. Some years before, an edition of 1482, also in the Nordenskiöld Collection, was auctioned at Sotheby for US$ 1,267,500.
When Nordenskiöld started selling his library in 1901 he received an interesting comment from the antiquarian bookseller Muller who had helped him in building the collection: "The value of historical cartography is not yet widely enough appreciated - a scientific library, for instance, would be easier to sell. Now things are entirely different." Nevertheless, the rise in the market prices may have come as a surprise to us. We must ask ourselves whether we really understand what treasures we have been made responsible for. Today rare maps are major investments. Do we protect them properly? The original volumes should never be removed from their vault; facsimile editions or digitised copies should be used instead. Several hundred maps from the Nordenskiöld Collection have been digitised. About a hundred of them are available on the CD-ROM edition
Terra Cognita,
which was produced for a major exhibition in Helsinki in 2000.
Old Maps: The Enckell Collection
Carl Enckell (1876-1959), industrialist, diplomat and foreign minister of Finland for many years, created a remarkable collection of maps of Finland and the Nordic countries, Northern Russia and the Baltic. There are about 600 sheet maps in the collection mainly from the period before 1808, the oldest from 1493. The collection has been accumulated systematically and the top names among European and Swedish map-makers are represented. Enckell himself was an eminent authority in cartography who published a number of scholarly treatises on the history of maps. He also provided his collection with a detailed catalogue. For him maps were not merely objects of intellectual curiosity or a collector's passion. In studying his maps he was interested, among other things, in the question of how informed quarters in Europe in 17th century gradually obtained a more correct picture of the Nordic countries. But his main interest was quite obviously based on his own political career. He was a man who twice had been given the task of negotiating a peace treaty with Russia. In that connection he had to deal with the details of the border between Finland and Russia and the Soviet Union. He discovered that not only the military facts did play a role but also the old borders. For Stalin the border of Peter the Great (1721) was particularly important. It seemed to give legitimacy to his requirements. Old maps had not lost their value. In one of his articles Enckell expressed his great astonishment that it had been possible during the previous centuries to draw and adjust borders without maps.
In 1991 an interactive videodisc of the maps was produced, accompanied by a database describing them. The database was prepared by Cecilia af Forselles-Riska from the information in Enckell's own catalogue. At that stage it was still impossible to know which direction the development of this electronic medium would take, but it soon proved that videodisc technology was a dead end. On the other hand, the disc can still be used and enjoyed.
Old and New Maps: The General Research Collection
In addition to these two collections the Library's General Research Collection also contains maps: about 4,000 foreign maps, 450 atlases and a number of wall maps. Most of them are geographical, but thematic maps, charts and astronomical maps are also included. A great fire destroyed the collections of the Library in autumn 1827, when the Library was still located in Turku (Swedish: Åbo), the former capital of the country. In 1828 the Library, together with the University, was moved to Helsinki, where it had to start to rebuild its collections from the ground up. In that situation it received remarkable donations, first of all from St. Petersburg where the Emperor himself was engaged in making valuable collections available. As a matter of fact, the Library received better collections of older European literature than it had had at its disposal before the great fire. In this way the Library received a basic collection of important old maps and atlases. New items were added to it when current cartographic publications were purchased for use in the University. Much of the cartographic material in the General Research Collection is therefore more recent than that of the Nordenskiöld Collection. Today atlases are mainly bought for reference needs.
Old and New Maps: The Slavonic Collection
The Library's collections of Russian literature from the period before 1918 are internationally known as a unique source for research and scholarship. They were received as legal deposit from the large Russian empire. Foreign scholars also frequently use the collections. I have been told that during July this year (2002), while Finns were having a nice time in their summer cottages, almost all the seats of the Slavonic Library's reading rooms were occupied by foreign visitors. The Slavonic collection contains about 3,000 individual maps, 150 atlases and a number of wall maps. The Library is now trying to purchase a comprehensive collection of maps of present-day Russia.
Maps are the visible part of the collections
The collections of old historical maps have given the Library great visibility both nationally and internationally, both among experts and the general public. The Library will continue with its exhibition and publication activities. For security reasons it is also exploring the possibility of digitising the most precious parts of its map collections on a large scale.
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National Defense University Gets New President
By Steven Donald Smith
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 14, 2006 - Marine Lt. Gen. Frances C. Wilson took the reins today as the 12th president of the National Defense University at Fort McNair here.
Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presided over the change of command ceremony. Pace lauded outgoing NDU President Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael M. Dunn for expanding the university's curriculum and reaching out to the international community.
"As sad as we are to see Mike go, we're delighted to have Fran take that flag today and carry this institution forward," Pace said. "She brings four master's degrees and one doctoral degree to the fight, as well as many other things."
Under Dunn's guidance, Pace said, NDU now offers valuable courses specifically geared toward senior enlisted military members, more classes for civilian government personnel, and additional coursework on homeland security issues. "The curriculum has retained its quality and has expanded the opportunity for those who want to come here and learn," the chairman said.
"I've enjoyed every minute of my job here at NDU. What's absolutely amazing to me is that the No. 1 attribute of the job is that it's not at the Pentagon," Dunn, who is retiring after 34 years of military service, said with a chuckle.
The university's mission is to prepare military and civilian leaders from the U.S. and other countries to better address national and international security challenges through multi-disciplinary educational programs, research, professional exchanges and outreach. The school's master's program is a one-year intensive study program. Students do not work normal day jobs while attending the program.
"This institution allows officers the opportunity to come in out of the field and reflect, learn, discuss, and share ideas with international officers," Pace said. "It allows government civilians, the collection of faculty, staff, and international students to stop doing today's business and think about tomorrow's."
Pace said another of Dunn's contributions was to establish an e-mail database to share information with about 20,000 people from around the world. This type of knowledge dissemination is a valuable instrument in the war on terror, he said. "It is a very powerful tool in a war that is about information and understanding as much as about anything else," he said.
Communicating across borders enables the sharing of lessons learned and the ability to normalize views on the war on terrorism, "so we understand each other better, internationally," Dunn said.
Wilson spoke briefly during the ceremony, saying she wants to adhere to an old Irish saying she once heard: "My role today is to be that of a corpse at an Irish wake. I'm necessary for the ceremony, but no one expects me to say much," she said to loud applause.
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1 ½ cups canned, crushed pineapple
1 cup milk
½ cup rava/semolina/cream of wheat
2 tsp sugar (according to taste)
1 Tbsp ghee
A pinch of powdered cardamom
Heat the ghee in a pan and add the rava to it & toast it till it is done. (You can tell by the smell when it's done.)
Add the milk followed by the crushed pineapple. Stir continuously and keep mixing well on low to medium heat for about 15-20 minutes.
Add the almonds, sugar & cardamom powder and continue to cook for another 2 -3 minutes.
Serve hot or cold.
P.S.- I am really not sure whether this is a halwa or a sheera or a kesari. I'm pretty sure that there is some subtle difference. If any one of you knows the difference, do let me know.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Pineapple Halwa or something like it...
Cooked by TBC on Friday, August 24, 2007
Labels: desserts, Indian, Pineapple, Sweet Treats
48 Burps:
- Manasi said...
Err.. Pineapple Sheera?
Looks awesome! My hubby loves this and I have a can of pineapple stiing inthe pantry... thanx for the wake up call!
- August 24, 2007 at 12:03 PM
- Asha said...
Pineapple Kesari Bhaat!! I love the flavor of Pineapple with rava.Looks delicious!:)
- August 24, 2007 at 12:05 PM
- Richa said...
looks delicious! rava is so very versatile, makes sweet n savory yum dishes. btw, when i make halwa, rava absorbs milk within 2 minutes, so i'm guessing u keep it for 15-20 mins just to cook the pineapple?
- August 24, 2007 at 12:18 PM
- sunita said...
With such a treat in front of the eyes, who needs to know the name...what's in a name anyway...just give me a spoon to dig in :D
- August 24, 2007 at 12:34 PM
- TheCooker said...
Wow! Looks like my kind of dessert. I'm going to make this tonight. Thanks.
- August 24, 2007 at 12:53 PM
- Kajal said...
What a great idea my dear…this is really rocking dish.....Looks very yummy. Nice combination pineapple with Rava. Really appreciate your work.:))
- August 24, 2007 at 1:07 PM
- Sirisha Kilambi said...
wow...a new one...haven't heard of this b4........will try it out dear :-)
- August 24, 2007 at 3:01 PM
- bee said...
it's beautiful, and low fat to boot.
- August 24, 2007 at 3:41 PM
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Anything with pineapple has a special place in my heart!
- August 24, 2007 at 3:56 PM
- Laavanya said...
I lurve pineapple and this looks heavenly... I feel like trying it right away but as luck would have it - no pineapple at home :(
So, you are not draining the pineapple right?
- August 24, 2007 at 3:56 PM
- Tee said...
halwa, sheera or kesari...it sure does look delicious! :)
- August 24, 2007 at 5:57 PM
- Coffee said...
Who the hell cares whatever it is!! It's pineapple afterall! :D Love it..... will try this soon. :)
- August 24, 2007 at 9:36 PM
- Suma Gandlur said...
Pineapple halwa is yummy. Isn't it? I too have posted this recipe recently. My version doesn't use milk though.
If I am correct, South Indians (especially Kannadigas) call the sooji halwa as kesari bhath because they add orange or kesari color to it.
Andhrites call it kesari or halwa.
I have seen Maharashtrians calling the same sooji halwa (without the color)as sheera.
- August 24, 2007 at 11:24 PM
- Suganya said...
Whatever it is, rava and pineapple is an amazing combo.
- August 25, 2007 at 2:12 AM
- Vcuisine said...
Whatever you call TBC, pineapple in a sweet adds taste to it. It looks yummy. Viji
- August 25, 2007 at 7:33 AM
- sra said...
Think a halwa has to be shapeless and smothered in ghee! Your creation looks wonderful!
- August 25, 2007 at 9:58 AM
- TBC said...
Manasi, thanks:)
Asha,thank you :)
Richa,yes.. it was to cook the pineapple & also to let some of the liquid evaporate & let the whole thing sorta "come together"
Sunita, I will, only if you give me a piece of that delicious cake ;-)
TC, do let me know how it turns out.
Kajal,thank you. ... you are so sweet :-)
Sirisha, try it when you can & let me know how it turns out.
Bee, thanks :-) Yes, it was.. and even the milk used was 1%
Patricia, I love pineapple too... fresh ones are the best but I was too lazy to do all that work.
Laavanya, it tasted very good.Actually, eating it while still warm is the best.
I did drain the crushed pineapple before using it but there was still some of the juice going into the halwa.
Tee, thanks:-)
Coffee, let me know how you like it, you rocking-thoughtful schmoozer!;-)
Suma,yes it was & I did't even feel guilty after eating it:-).So then this is a halwa, right?.
I will check your version of this too.
Suganya, thank you :-)
Viji, thanks:-)
- August 25, 2007 at 10:02 AM
- TBC said...
Sra, thanks :-)
Is that so? yeah, the ghee bit does make sense.I tried googling it but did not have much luck.
- August 25, 2007 at 10:12 AM
- Raaga said...
Looks beautiful TBC :-)
- August 25, 2007 at 11:40 AM
- anusharaji(www.talimpu.com) said...
I luv pineapples
n that halwa looks beautiful
vl surely try it
i do have a pineapple at hand
- August 25, 2007 at 6:37 PM
- Cynthia said...
I usually like my cream of wheat porridge with pineapple jam so I can imagine how wonderful this tastes. Looks good, TBC.
- August 25, 2007 at 7:53 PM
- Sharmi said...
the "something like it" recipe looks delicious:))
- August 26, 2007 at 12:07 AM
- Seena said...
Looks very easy to prepare, will try this, my kids love pineapple dishes.
- August 26, 2007 at 9:03 AM
- Seena said...
Looks very easy to prepare, will try this, my kids love pineapple dishes.
- August 26, 2007 at 9:03 AM
- Rajitha said...
nice presentation.. i am sure it tastes good too
- August 26, 2007 at 5:45 PM
- TBC said...
Raaga, thanks:-)
Raji, I do too:-)
Thanks for the compliment.
You just gave me another recipe to try out!:-)Thanks.
Sharmi, thanks:-)
I'm still not sure wot to call it!
Seena, do try it when you can.
Rajitha, thank you:-)
- August 26, 2007 at 9:19 PM
- Nupur said...
Love the delicate color of this dessert! And it looks so quick and simple.
- August 27, 2007 at 7:25 AM
- TBC said...
Nupur,thanks! Yes, it was,didn't take too long at all.
- August 27, 2007 at 10:06 AM
- Nirmala said...
Holy cow. This is simple and delicious!
- August 27, 2007 at 9:02 PM
- Nags said...
very innovative :)
- August 28, 2007 at 1:04 AM
- Jyothsna said...
I love the look of it! I'm bookmarking this!
- August 28, 2007 at 2:16 AM
- Latha Narasimhan said...
TBC Now I know , I'll not miss any recipe if I go to FBD! Finally! :))
You can give a new name to this recipe dear! Looks great!
- August 28, 2007 at 10:25 AM
- TBC said...
Nirmala, yes it was!:-)
Nags, thanks:-)
Jyothsna, do try it out and let me know how it turns out for you. :-)
- August 28, 2007 at 10:30 AM
- TBC said...
Latha, you are doing great! You have picked up so much in such a short time.I too did not know about the FBD thing until Bee told me about it.:-)
- August 28, 2007 at 11:07 AM
- Mansi Desai said...
I think i'm gona call it pineapple kesari:) b'coz this looks like what i had by that name at a south indian restaurant, and I loved it...I'm a huge fan of sweets, so can't wait to make this one!!
- August 28, 2007 at 1:11 PM
- TBC said...
Kesari it is then!
Thanks for stopping by, Mansi:-)
- August 28, 2007 at 2:39 PM
- Rachna said...
wow this looks totally yummy... the picture looks so lickable...:) will def try...
- August 31, 2007 at 10:17 AM
- Latha Narasimhan said...
Lovely entry dear! I am planning the round up on 12th september.
- August 31, 2007 at 10:58 AM
- TBC said...
Rachana, thank you :-)
Latha, thanks a lot! :-). I cannot wait to see all the entries!
- August 31, 2007 at 1:09 PM
- SeeC said...
Very tempting TBC. Wish to grab it :)
- September 2, 2007 at 5:28 PM
- TBC said...
Seec, thanks:-)
- September 4, 2007 at 10:17 AM
- Apple said...
Looks so yum n delicious...loved your soya rice and cauliflower soup too...
- September 7, 2007 at 1:54 AM
- TBC said...
Apple, thank you very much.Hope to see you around here often.
- September 7, 2007 at 9:11 AM
- Rina said...
Pretty simple version you have here. Like the picture too.
- September 25, 2007 at 3:14 PM
- TBC said...
Rina, thanks for checking it out. Your version is definitely more colorful & vibrant:-)
- September 25, 2007 at 9:44 PM
- Habiba said...
Hi, This is a great recipe. Im definitely going to try it out soon. Just a headsup. Came across another recipe for the pineapple suji halwa online that is using the same picture as yours.. Heres the link incase you would like to check it out.
- December 13, 2010 at 3:09 PM
- TBC said...
Habiba- Thank you so much for letting me know! The picture there is mine and it has being used without my permission- thanks again for leaving a comment here to inform me about it.
P.S. I'm unable to access your profile and get in touch with you any other way to express my gratitude for alerting me.
- December 13, 2010 at 7:23 PM
- Habiba said...
Im glad I could be of help... :)
- December 14, 2010 at 12:39 PM


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SPOKANE, Wash. — North Dakota State tries to make the most of its second trip to the NCAA Tournament, as the Bison go up against the Oklahoma Sooners in the second round of the West Region at Spokane Arena.
SPOKANE, Wash. — North Dakota State tries to make the most of its second trip to the NCAA Tournament, as the Bison go up against the Oklahoma Sooners in the second round of the West Region at Spokane Arena.
The 12th-seeded Bison, who bowed to Kansas during the first round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament in Minneapolis (84-74), are enjoying one of their most successful campaigns ever. The team has reached the 20-win plateau four times during a decade-long stint at the Division I level, and a victory in this contest would match the school's all-time record of 26 victories set in both 1924-25 and 2008-09.
North Dakota State has been one of the hottest teams in the country since the start of the new calendar year, losing just twice in 17 opportunities. Since the most recent setback to Denver on the road back on Feb. 1, the Bison have rattled off nine straight victories, defeating the Pioneers twice this month alone and also taking down IUPU-Ft. Wayne in the Summit League title game, 60-57.
As for the fifth-seeded Sooners, they are seasoned veterans in this event, making their 28th appearance. Under the direction of Lon Kruger, who last year became the first head coach in history to guide five different Division I programs to the NCAA Tournament (Kansas State, Florida, Illinois, UNLV and Oklahoma), the Sooners finished second in the Big 12 Conference standings at 12-6. The squad raised a few eyebrows with plenty of success during the non- conference slate, opening the campaign with 11 wins in 12 tries, the lone setback coming against then top-ranked Michigan State (87-76) during the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic in New York City back in November.
Oklahoma has produced a mark of 35-27 in this event over the years, making it to the Final Four four times, most recently in 2002, while also playing for the national championship in both 1947 and 1988.
The winner of this first-ever meeting will be back in action in the next round on Saturday versus the survivor of the New Mexico State/San Diego State contest. Unfortunately for the Bison, history is not on their side when it comes to taking on members of the Big 12 Conference, having lost all seven of the previous encounters with such institutions.
At first glance, the North Dakota State defense would seem to be rather impressive, allowing only 65.4 ppg, but a closer look shows that three of the four opponents held below 50 points this season, helping to aid in bringing that number down, came from outside the Division I ranks. Granted, the squad did hold Denver to only 48 points 10 days ago, but that might not be a true indication of the team's talent level.
The same could be said for an offense that is producing 76.4 ppg while shooting an impressive 50.9 percent from the floor. Much of that latter number is skewed from the efforts of Marshall Bjorklund (13.4 ppg) who is the nation's leader in field goal percentage at .636. Leading scorer Taylor Braun (18.2 ppg) is not nearly as accurate at 49.1 percent, but he's more than an offensive force, having cleared 5.5 rpg, handed out 116 assists and made 48 steals to pace the Bison in all three categories. TrayVonn Wright (11.5 ppg) has a presence in the paint that's resulted in 5.2 rpg and a team-best 55 blocked shots, just three shy of the competition in total through 31 games.
Scoring points has not been an issue for the Sooners this season, having generated 82.2 ppg, but there are times when the scoring defense has come up small for a squad that suffered six defeats in league play. Unlike most teams that make it this far, one of the aspects of Oklahoma that is encouraging is that the team has had the same starting lineup in every game this season. Playing a team-high 32.1 minutes per outing, Buddy Hield has cranked out 16.8 ppg thanks to 89 3-pointers. Hield has also taken advantage of his ability on the interior as well, clearing 4.4 rpg along the way.
Cameron Clark (15.3 ppg) is the other key contributor on offense, responsible for 5.5 rpg which is second only to Ryan Spangler (9.8 ppg) who has pulled down 9.4 rpg in order to give the squad a slight edge on the glass (1.5 rpg). Isaiah Cousins and Jordan Woodard check in with 10.8 and 10.3 ppg, respectively, the latter trying to offset his mere 35.8 percent shooting from the field with a team-high 149 assists.


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The PriceRite discount supermarket planned for the Mount Clare Junction shopping plaza in West Baltimore will open Wednesday, the chain said today.
The Sun's Steve Kilar reported in October that PriceRite had signed a lease to open in a 39,000-square-foot anchor spot in the Pigtown center, at the corner of West Pratt and South Carey streets.
Other tenants are Family Dollar, Downtown Locker Room and Rent-A-Center.
PriceRite, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elizabeth, N.J.,-based Wakefern Food Corp., said the location is the first in the city. The grocer has one other location in the Baltimore area, which opened last year off Security Boulevard in Woodlawn, and a store that opened last month in District Heights.
The Pigtown store will employ 130 full- and part-time workers.
The grocer says it offers warehouse club shopping without membership fees and savings of up to 50 percent off prices at traditional supermarkets. To keep costs low, PriceRite limits its advertising, does not publish a weekly circular and encourages shoppers to use their own bags.
The Baltimore store will offer a fresh seafood department as well as packaged meats, baked goods, a mix of private label and national brands and dairy and frozen foods.


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Overnight Friday into Saturday, skywatchers could witness the fresh, first ever-seen May Camelopardalid meteor shower, weather permitting.
The Comet 209P/LINEAR, discovered Feb. 3, 2004, by the automated Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research sky survey, will make an unusually close approach to earth May 29. Despite coming within 5,150,000 miles, the periodic comet will remain no brighter than 11th far too faint for naked eye observation.
Nevertheless, the earth and the night sky of North America will pass a few days beforehand through the comet's dust and rubble trails, and a brand new, and quite possibly exceptionally dramatic, meteor shower is expected to radiate from the northern circumpolar Constellation Camelopardalis, "the leopard-spotted giraffe."
How outstanding this new meteor shower will be remains to be seen. Calculations have indicated that this newly discovered comet has crossed the earth's orbit dozens of times since at least 1763, and has sloughed off dust trails that have piled upon one another. This month, the earth's atmosphere will pass through an estimated 25 thin trails of comet debris overnight May 23/24, precipitating a meteor shower that will peak around 1 a.m. May 24, perhaps replete with dramatic fireballs.
The question is, how many meteors per hour (Zenithal Hourly Rate) can be expected?
Astronomers Quanzhi Ye and Paul A. Weigert conservatively estimate a ZHR of about 200 per hour with the qualification that the comet's current weak dust production could make the number much lower. Compare this to the 60 or more per hour ZHR of the famed Perseid meteor shower peaking Aug. 12. Astronomers Mikhail Maslov and Esko Lyytinen, while both predicting a ZHR of around 100, concede that the uncertainties are very wide and a meteor storm level outburst (around 1,000 ZHR) is still a distinct possibility.
Though many in the media are hyping the "meteor storm" possibility, it's wiser for the skywatcher to keep expectations dampened and simply enjoy the spectacle. The reality is that no one really knows how many meteors there'll be because astronomers base their forecasts upon various models using the inexact science of meteor shower prediction.
At any rate, it is widely hoped that Comet 209P/LINEAR's latest pass will contribute material for the most spectacular meteor shower in more than a decade, providing between 100-400 meteors per hour from the Constellation Camelopardalis radiant.


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|June 17, 2009 11:00 PM EDT
Last week I received an email from Lindsey Miller at Ragan Communications. I answered her questions for a story she was working on here.
The following is the full text of my reply to her on this subject.
What kinds of PR firm will survive the "fast-approaching new media avalanche"? What steps will firms have to take to ensure that they make it through?
I know a lot of PR firms that are chasing new accounts among publicly traded companies, which are seen as cash cows in the business. I also know a lot of firms whose sales teams are larger than their senior account staff which will actually get the job done. These firms have armies of new college-grad telemarketers spitting out press releases to the media.
For a while you can get away with both approaches. Once the laws, rules and regulations change, the first group of PR firms will disappear overnight as I mentioned in my original blog entry here.
The demise of the second group of firms will come from the social media freight train. PR firms need to catch up with the change.
What will the "new" PR companies look like?
The new PR companies won't be putting out press releases and won't be in the press release business. The PR firm of the future will employ professional bloggers who will use social media tools to get their message into the hands of their targeted audience. The press release business already belongs to the Stone Age. The new PR game will be played by rock star bloggers on brand new platforms and distribution channels such as Ulitzer.
If the rules change for publicly traded companies, will PR firms have more of a chance at surviving?
Why do you think social media is so damaging for PR firms? Can't it be helpful as well?
It can be very helpful indeed. But change is painful. As I mentioned in my blog prompting this conversation, the topic goes back to the saying "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." A large number of PR companies are still living in the Stone Age. Again as I said, I've had exchanges with owners of well-known PR companies who don't even know the basic mechanics of the Internet. How will these people and companies adjust to the change? They haven't a chance. If you can't see the future already, what are your chances to lead the future? None.
Can you give any examples of PR firms who are doing things right already?
I don't know of any PR firm that's waving the flag of the change that we are living through. IMHO all of the existing PR companies are challenged by what's coming up. I don't think there's one company out there that's thrilled to see what's going on. They used to be kings five years ago. Will they be around in another five years? I don't know.
How do you imagine the new social media platforms that you talk about that don't exist yet will work?
Good question. Blogs are relatively new, if you consider the mass of the population. At a cocktail party less than a year ago someone I was talking to from the financial industry (a stockbroker) told me, "You know there is something called a 'blog' and people who write blogs are called bloggers?" I said yes I know.
Job titles from the future: Steve Adubato "Politcal Analyst & CBS2 Blogger"
Today, the mass of the population knows "blogging" as their Facebook pages, and 99.99% of the blogs being written are never read by anyone except the blogger's family and friends.
This means two things. Not everyone has to write a book, sing, or blog. The ones who have something to say in their blogs will evolve into more professional platforms. The social media platforms that do not exist today will be created to serve the professional community of writers and bloggers.
When radio was invented, it was like the Internet - anyone could talk into a microphone and have their voice heard by the neighbors who owned a radio device. We'll see the consolidation of content on the Internet. The new media platforms will clean out the garbage and the noise and display useful content.
The challenge for PR companies is try to stay above the trash filter with what they produce as content. I can't imagine anyone's favorite pastime is reading press releases. Companies that keep PR firms occupied will also move on to tools and platforms that stay above the Internet's trash filters.
This doesn't mean spamming the world on Twitter, Facebook or whatever. Today's social media tools serve a purpose today and will fade away as things evolve.
Can you think of any examples of sophisticated social media initiatives that companies are pursuing with the currently available social media tools? Is it a waste of time to get involved now?
I don't think it's waste of time or energy. It will turn Facebook or Twitter into a pure spam machine sooner rather than later. If your message isn't interesting, who cares if you Tweet your heart out all day or write graffiti on people's Facebook walls?
Do you believe there's still a need for PR? What about the other functions PR serves, such as crisis communications? Who will handle that?
Sure there will always be need for PR. My point is, if you take the bulk of activities that make up today's PR, a big chunk of the revenue-generating tasks will go away. I don't know what you call the rest; crisis communications is one you mentioned.
Do you have any responses to the comments that appeared below your original post?
We approved all feedback to my post with no edits. I read them all. My comment is: I am not against PR firms. All I'm saying is watch out, there's a big freight train coming.
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It's a girl!
George Lucas and wife Mellody Hobson welcomed a daughter named Everest Hobson Lucas Friday, Aug. 9, according to the Huffington Post.
The little one, who was delivered via surrogate, is the first biological child for the couple and joins Lucas' adopted children 32-year-old Amanda, 25-year-old Katie and 20-year-old Jett.
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The Star Wars creator and the Ariel Investments president wed in late June at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, Calif.
Prior to the pair's engagement, the 69-year-old filmmaker sold Lucasfilm to Disney for a whopping $4.05 billion in Oct. 2012.
"It was 40 years of work," Lucas told E! News at the Ebony Power 100 Gala in November. "It has been my life, but I am ready to move on to bigger and better things."
Including a newborn baby girl. Congrats to the happy couple!
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Tom Valenti was the first chef in New York City to cook this great recipe. It can be found in his book Welcome to My Kitchen, just published by HarperCollins.
- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- 6 lamb foreshanks
- Coarse salt and pepper, to taste
- 3 tablespoons plus 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 ribs of celery, roughly chopped
- 1 carrot, roughly chopped
- 1 onion, roughly chopped
- 1/3 cup tomato paste
- 5 sprigs of fresh thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 8 whole black peppercorns
- 3 anchovy fillets
- 1 whole head of garlic, cut in half crosswise
- 2 cups red wine
- 1 cup white wine
- 1/3 cup white-wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 cups beef broth and 2 cups chicken broth
- White Bean Puree , for serving
- 1.Preheat oven to 325°F. Season the lamb with salt and pepper.
- 2.Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a pot over medium-high heat. Add the celery, carrot, and onion; cook until very soft, 8 to 10 minutes.
- 3.Add the tomato paste and cook 1 to 2 minutes. Add the thyme, bay leaf, peppercorns, anchovies, and garlic; cook 3 minutes.
- 4.Add the wines, vinegar, and sugar; raise the heat to high and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to medium and add the broths. Leave over medium heat while you brown the lamb shanks.
- 5.Pour the remaining 1/4 cup of olive oil into a sauté pan. Over medium-high heat, brown the lamb shanks well on all sides, using tongs to flip them over.
- 6.Transfer lamb shanks to a roasting pan and pour the braising liquid on top. Cover with aluminum foil and cook in the preheated oven for 1 hour. Remove the foil and cook 2 1/2 to 3 hours more, turning the shanks over every half hour until the meat is very soft.
- 7.Remove the shanks from the braising liquid and strain the liquid. Skim any fat that rises to the surface, then use the liquid as a sauce. Serve in shallow bowls atop White Bean Puree.
Per serving: 400 calories, 12g carbohydrates, 38g protein, 19g fat, 120mg cholesterol
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No charges will be filed against the leadership team of Washington Mutual Bank, which failed in 2008 amid a cloud of suspicion that improper lending had been occurring there.
Announcing the decision late Friday, a U.S. Attorney's Office spokesperson said in a statement that a federal task force examining the WaMu failure did not find evidence of criminal violations.
"Investigators have conducted an extensive investigation that included hundreds of interviews and the review of millions of documents relating to the operations, and the subsequent failure, of Washington Mutual Bank," the statement read. "Based upon its investigation, the Department of Justice has concluded that the evidence does not meet the exacting standards for criminal charges in connection with the bank's failure."
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This course will examine the many and deep roots of Emmanuel College. It will begin by examining the European roots of the founding of the Sisters of Notre Dame in 1804 and continue by describing the sociology and cultural geography of Boston, the Catholic Church and the Sisters of Notre Dame in 1919 when Emmanuel was founded.
A field trip to the North End of Boston to see the historic sites and the roots of the Sisters of Notre Dame's first mission in Boston in 1849 will be included. The course will then examine the current global mission of the Sisters of Notre Dame in twenty countries of the world to which Emmanuel is connected. It will focus on the countries, including the U.S. and Kenya, where recent Emmanuel graduates serve as N.D. Americorps/Mission Volunteers.
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Hartford, Conn. – Junior RB Evan Bunker (Topsfield, Mass.) rushed for 215 yards and two touchdowns and senior tri-captain S Rae Haynes (Hartford, Conn.) scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 40-yard interception return with 8:55 left in the fourth quarter to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 32-20 victory over the visiting Amherst College Lord Jeffs in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) football action this afternoon at Jessee/Miller Field. Trinity, ranked No. 1 in New England and No. 6 in the ECAC Lambert Meadowlands Poll, wins its nation-best 47th straight regular-season home game. The Lord Jeffs, ranked No. 5 in New England, fall to 5-2 with their first loss in four games and fall out of contention for a share of the league title. Trinity last lost at home in 2001 to Williams, 31-10, and has never lost a home game on turf. The Bantams remain alone at the top of the league, one game ahead of Middlebury who Trinity defeated last week, 45-7, with one game remaining next week at Wesleyan.
Trailing, 20-12, after a 33-yard field goal by junior Jake Schmidt (Santa Monica, Calif.) with 5:08 left in the third quarter, his second of the day, Trinity opened the fourth period with a nine-play, 71-yard drive that included eight rushes by Bunker for 67 yards and ended with a one-yard Bunker plunge into the end zone. Trinity failed on its two-point conversion to make the score, 20-18, with 10:34 left in regulation. On the ensuing Amherst drive, Haynes stepped in front of a pass by Lord Jeff sophomore QB Max Lippe (Los Altos, Calif.) at the Amherst 40-yard line and raced to the left corner of the end zone to give Trinity its first lead at 26-20 with 8:55 on the clock. Amherst was forced to punt on its next two possessions, and Trinity added an insurance touchdown at the 2:18 mark of the fourth quarter on a 26-yard touchdown pass down the right sideline from senior QB Ryan Burgess (Dracut, Mass.) to sophomore RB Michael Budness (Belchertown, Mass.). Junior RB Ben Crick (Middlebury, Conn.) ran the PAT up the middle for the lone successful Bantam extra-point conversion of the game to account for a 32-20 final score.
Amherst led, 3-0, 7:59 into the game on a 29-yard field goal by Schmidt that was answered by Trinity senior K Tim Costello (Solana Beach, Calif.) from 30 yards out at the 13:39 mark of the second quarter. Trinity went ahead, 9-3, 1:03 later, taking advantage of a Lippe fumble that was recovered by sophomore DE Lyle Baker (Andover, Mass.) at the Amherst 35-yard line. Bunker ran on first down for 24 yards and score from one yard out on a direct snap out of the shotgun two plays later, but Costello hit the upright with the PAT. After Costello and Schmidt traded field goals, the Lord Jeffs put together impressive back-to-back scoring drives in the second stanza with the first ending on a five-yard scoring rush by Lippe and the second closing on a six-yard touchdown pass by Lippe that was tipped and fell into the hands of rookie WR Brian Ragone (Sarasota, Fla.) to give the visitors a 17-9 lead the break. Trinity advanced to the Amherst 30-yard line on its last possession of the first half, but Burgess was picked off by Amherst senior DB Michael Aldo (Mansfield, Mass.) to end both the scoring threat and Burgess' streak off five games without an interception.
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Burgess finished 11-for-22 for 125 yards, including three passes for a team-high 51 yards to sophomore WR Chris Ragone (Sarasota, Fla.), while Lippe was 22-for-41 for 192 yards with nine of his completions going to junior WR Jake O'Malley (Medfield, Mass.) for a total of 61 yards. Freshman RB Ken Aboagye-Adinkra (Lynn, Mass.) paced the Lord Jeff rushing attack with nine carries for 63 yards. First-year P Kyle Pulek (Cheshire, Conn.) played a major role with six punts for an average of 44.5 yards per attempt including two inside the Amherst 20-yard line. Defensively, Haynes totaled seven tackles and broke up a pass at the goal line to force Amherst to settle for a field goal on its first possession, while junior CB Akeem Labitue (Dorchester, Mass.) had a team-high 11 tackles, and Baker notched five tackles, one sack, one forced fumble, and one fumble recovery. Amherst senior captain LB Sam Clark (Andover, Mass.) led all tacklers with 12 hits, nine solo, and added one sack, while sophomore LB Chris Tamasi (Canton, Mass.) had 11 tackles and one tackle for loss, and senior DL Travis Dickenson (St. John's Mich.) recorded 10 tackles and a sack.