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Mr. Timothy
"A dazzling blend of literary fiction and white-knuckle thriller."
—People (Top 10 Books of 2003)
It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pockets.
Timothy's life takes a sharp turn when he discovers the bodies of two dead girls, each seared with the same cruel brand on the upper arm. The sight of their horror-struck faces compels Timothy to become the protector of another young girl, Philomela, from the fate the others suffered at the hands of a dangerous and powerful man.
A different kind of Christmas story, this breathless flight through the teeming markets, shadowy passageways, and rolling brown fog of 1860s London would do Dickens proud for its surprising twists and turns, and its extraordinary heart.
Praise for Mr. Timothy
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"This mix of thriller and literature is as rich as a Christmas cake…a spirited adventure."
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—Entertainment Weekly
"Audacious...triumphant entertainment... a page-turner of a thriller."
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"Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston helped to lighten the mood on the set of the grim TV drama by stuffing prosthetic penises into his underwear.
The actor, who portrays chemistry teacher-turned-drug lord Walter White on the hit series, often rifled through the show's prop department to find items he could use to break the tension in between filming, and his dirty sense of humor would frequently make his onscreen wife, Anna Gunn, burst into giggles.
She tells GQ magazine, "Remember, I spent six years seeing the man in his underwear. Sometimes less than his underwear.
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Cranston adds, "There's nothing better than a good penis for a laugh."

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Sadly, Better Hearing & Speech Month (BHSM) has come to a close! So many great posts, articles, events, tweets and stories shared–the messages will undoubtedly resound well beyond this one month. Here are just a few of the many great posts we noticed from this last week of BHSM:
- The Kansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association produced five podcasts in honor of BHSM examining issues relevant to SLPs and audiologists.
- Even the Department of Defense's Hearing Center of Excellence got involved in highlighting the importance of BHSM, sharing plans to embark on a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of noise later this year.
- The Technology in (Spl) Education blog featured many SLP guest posts throughout May in honor of BHSM.
- The Standford School of Medicine blog Hearing Loss Cure posted a great summary of more BHSM efforts undertaken by various organizations, and reminded us of the importance of keeping the spirit of BHSM alive throughout the year.
Thanks again to all who commented on the week 1 , week 2 , week 3 and week 4 roundup posts–please share any last BHSM blog posts and other resources in the comments.
Maggie McGary is the online community & social media manager at ASHA, and manages ASHAsphere.


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Commissioners get stormwater update
Members of the West Michigan Environmental Action Council appeared before Grand Rapids city commissioners last week to present the findings of a two-year stakeholder and research project that examined the current condition of the city's stormwater system and how it's being managed.
The key findings were that the city needs to improve the management of its stormwater assets, which the report said will require more resources and investment; create an asset management plan for the system; and find equitable and sustainable ways to raise revenue to fund and maintain the planned improvements.
The report noted the city has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to separate the sanitary and stormwater systems over the last two decades, work that has largely eliminated sewage overflows into the Grand River. Even with that, the Clean Water Act still lists the Grand River along with Plaster Creek as impaired waterways.
"Despite the significant work separating and updating the storm and sewer systems, 93 percent of stormwater pipes pre-date the CSO separation, and 164 miles of those pipes are more than 50 years old," read the report, which can be found at report.15toriver.org.
The report also noted that the city, which is undergoing a transformation of how it delivers services, doesn't have the revenue to adequately manage the system, mostly because of the effect of the Great Recession and fewer state dollars.
"We simply do not have the manpower to maintain the infrastructure and respond to problems on a complaint or crisis basis," read the report. "There is no capital asset management plan to prioritize infrastructure maintenance and replacement, and there is no available funding to replace and upgrade the infrastructure to equal the rate at which it is declining."
WMEAC Communications Director Daniel Schoonmaker pointed out the report called for commissioners to establish a stormwater exploratory group to make recommendations on how to improve and manage the system. He also said the findings suggested the public be educated about the stormwater issue. The report emphasized there currently aren't any incentives for property owners to curb runoff by installing such things as rain gardens and green roofs that could reduce the cost to control stormwater.
Deputy City Manager Eric DeLong said the report represented the first phase of a three-phase effort. Next is creating an asset-management plan, which he indicated would get started this month and be wrapped up in March. The final stage is to come up with potential solutions. "The consideration of potential solutions will follow the completion of the asset-management plan," he said.


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Soil, Seeds, Salt: Education Brought Down to Earth
Dandelion leaves flown thousands of miles from Mexico now grace the organic section of our best local grocery stores. For this new addition, we can thank the demands of green consumers, newly educated about prevention of cancer and other diseases through organics and the natural gifts of Mother Nature.
I find myself smiling at the latest proof of the power of our greening greenbacks. I am also amused and saddened by the irony that the leaf generously and effortlessly yielded every hour for most months of the year by soil and worms in our own backyards must be carried north in airplanes guzzling barrels of oil and spewing millions of pounds of greenhouse gases.
How many young and old in our campuses and classrooms lack the simple knowledge possessed by illiterate peasants who are skilled in recognizing a dandelion leaf at a fleeting glance, and who have been taught by their unschooled mothers and grandmothers about the healing powers of its minerals and vitamins?
Humble handfuls of dandelion greens stand ready to teach us abundant lessons in humility; our backyards can educate us about healing our bodies and our earth. The dandelion needs no fossil fuels to perennially, generously feed and heal us. All it requires to do its good work is to be left alone.
Mexican farmers must surely wonder why a plant that literally grows itself needs to be imported by northerners.
What education will it take 98 percent of us—stuck indoors in concrete classrooms and offices—to enjoy harvesting our own dandelions for free, instead of paying grocery stores to refrigerate and fly them all the way north from the southern fields of Mexican peasants?
Education in the Abstract
Every "Philosophy of Education" course I have taught has begun with all students sharing a brief set of reflections on their philosophy of education—"uncontaminated" by any of the readings I assign in my courses.
Those personal philosophies are invariably defined by abstraction, lacking any real texture or grounding in any particular place on earth. Education happens in indistinguishable classrooms and tech-labs everywhere, nowhere, any place, no place, cyberspace.
Listening to such ideas and ideals of education, I grope to learn where they belong. Which soil or place do these learners and teachers seek to learn or teach about? To care for? Where are the commons that cultivate and nourish their common sense? Such questions haunt my reading of their first philosophies of education. They float, as it were, out in cyberspace. Laptops beam onto printers. Each "writing" is in perfect print—zero trace of human hands—as clean and untouched as Wonder Bread packaged without the threat of being sullied by human hands or an infinitesimal hint of soil.
Not once has the word "soil" ever appeared one of my students' first statements. Yet, by the last week, soil becomes less alien stuff. They know well that the health of our soil and of our bodies is inextricably linked; that moving from Fast Food to Slow Food is as essential to their personal well being as it is for the healing of the damage each one of us is doing not only to our place on earth, but to other peoples' places as well.
Learning to Escape Soil
When I started life in the classroom in my native India, 98 percent of Indians worked the soil for their subsistence. The higher I climbed the education ladder, the more I ached for that 98 percent, doomed to subsistence, to slave and toil on soil.
As I delved deeper into my studies on Development Economics, I found the solution: the American Dream, where 98 percent can escape toil on soil because of the genius of agribusiness. Two percent feed the whole nation and generously stretch to include some of the starving billions of the world. Voila!
Lady Liberty held out to me the promise of an education to liberate the majority of people on earth—India's peasants included—from subsistence. I began dreaming the American Dream: democracy, freedom, equality for all.
Five years later, with my newly minted Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Education in hand, I was ready to spread the gospel of Global Education for Development across the world. My education had enlightened me about the shame of subsistence.
Dismal statistics about the millions stuck to the soil dominated our studies of educational policy and theories for global development. How do we escape underdevelopment? This was the question directing and pushing our academic research of Education and Development for every nation on earth. Thanks to all the technological advances in travel, communication, and health care, a shrinking planet could offer each and every global citizen the gift of good education.
Philosophers of Soil
But one brief encounter with a philosopher and thinker we had never bothered to study in all the decades I had spent in classrooms suddenly, out of the blue, came to haunt and harass my philosophy of education, which I assumed to be engraved in stone. Suddenly, shockingly, it all collapsed like a flimsy castle built of cards.
Ivan Illich did not exist even as a tiny blip on the radar screens of all the educators shaping and directing my doctoral studies in education. But a few weeks after I had launched my professional career as a philosopher of education, a brief, unexpected, and unplanned exchange of ideas with Illich left me sitting disheveled, dumbstruck, and distressed amidst the wreckage of all my educated certainties about Education.
Everything I had built upon as the foundation for rational, scientific, statistically sound, and well-documented Education/Development Theory, Policy, and Analysis was revealed by Illich as professional hocus-pocus and modern myth-making, industrially manufactured and disseminated world-wide with the finesse of toothpaste advertisements, and fabricated to sell us all of the illusions defining the American Dream.
Illich provoked and pushed me to study in ways none of my professors ever had. More dangerous yet, he moved me to seriously study philosophers I had either never heard of or, even worse, revered as the greatest minds and spirits of contemporary times without knowing a single thing about their books or ideas.
Following Illich's gaze, it was inevitable that I arrive at the doorstep of the American philosopher Wendell Berry—as unfamiliar to me as to anybody else I studied with. Equally inevitably, I soon discovered why the Gandhi we revered as a Mahatma (i.e. Superman) was never studied, his 90 volumes gathering dust in the best libraries. Berry and Gandhi were clearly not joining the Great March headed by Nehru, Truman, and others to the newest and shiniest Temples of Progress, Development, and Education.
Gandhi and Berry's writings and reflections, joined to Illich's, became for my philosophy of education the Non-violent Gang of Three—peacefully, without guns, humiliation, or insult slaying all my modern certainties. All three wrote about reality that ripped into shreds every theory and statistic I had ever studied including, of course, the "fact" that the American Dream could be dreamed and realized by every hard-working, sincere, and educated global citizen. Each of the three rendered unacceptable the view that all the illiterate billions of peasants on earth needed to be fully educated and liberated from their toil on soil.
Turning on its head this central certainty of education—that every highly credentialed graduate of the world should empower every peasant-farmer into also becoming an educated professional—these three thinkers invited us to gaze at the uneducated, the illiterate, and the drop-out in a whole new light: learning to humbly respect rather than arrogantly reject their traditional ways of working, learning, teaching, and living—exemplars of what it means to be well-rooted and grounded in soil.
"Look down at soil, humbly" Ivan Illich urges us. "Search below our feet because our generation has lost its grounding in both soil and virtue."
Bringing us down to earth, down below expert ecologists' abstractions about "planet Earth, global hunger, threats to life," Illich invites us home: to the soil on which we stand, right beneath our feet; the same soil we put into our mouths with zero thought as disengaged "industrial eaters."
Stanford, NYU, and other famous centers of education could not seduce Berry into prolonging his city residency. Before wasting too much time out-of-place, Berry found his way home to his native Kentucky, where his grandparents and other ancestors learned and taught how to tend, toil on, and love their soil.
Berry invites us all to find our way home: to live, teach, and learn the knowledge and skills necessary to deeply care for the physical and cultural soil of our own places. Every place on our diverse earth has its own special and distinctive soil whose particular and peculiar tending explains the fabulous diversity of every one of the earth's millions of "local cultures." The health of local soil has always depended on the shared stories people have told each other—keeping them alive with daily telling and neighborly talk—the living memory that is the "stuff" and "soil" of every local culture. Berry says:
If the local culture cannot preserve and improve the local soil, then, as both reason and history inform us, the local community will decay and perish … A human community, then, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place.
Practically speaking, human society has no work more important than this.
Gandhi's sovereignty was rooted in people taking back their soil, seeds, and salt. Soil had to be tended daily for growing food and taking care of shit. Shit work must be done by every person who shits; bread labor by everyone who eats. This inevitably nourishes the character of self-rule or autonomy. Soil constituted the center of Gandhi's quest for sovereignty.
Nai Talim (new education) and Hind Swaraj (home rule)—Gandhi's two shortest treatises on soil for subsistence—offer rich, succinct, juicy shortcuts through his 90 volumes that elaborate on every aspect of freedom and sovereignty. Instead of being good consumers or colonized subjects to empires and multinational corporations, Gandhi's education cultivates the knowledge and skills necessary for sovereignty.
Digging In
How do we bring alive the ideas and ideals of Gandhi, Berry, Illich on a philosophy of education at the center of which is living soil? How do we explore these questions so that they are not abstract and opaque—something read and forgotten minutes after the end of examination week? These are the questions that perennially push and challenge my philosophy of education. They are far from easy to answer mechanically or bureaucratically. Stuck for hours in industrial classrooms, how do we speak of soil without rendering it yet another abstract idea. Stuck in the context of dirt-free zones, how do we celebrate dirt and enjoy the pleasures of mucking around in it?
Jesse, a student sick with Crohn's disease, shared her dreams of starting a garden with her six friends and growing good, nourishing healing foods for herself and her little community. They knew next to nothing about growing food and, as typical student apartment dwellers, lacked land to start their experiments in learning. Jesse's joyful enthusiasm and hopefulness, joined by that of her six "ignorant" friends, melted my reservations. In hours, they had dug up a piece of my suburban backyard.
Three years later, not only was Jesse robust and radiant again; this "Gang of Gardening 7" became the most compelling and contagious spokespeople for a philosophy of education that uses soil as the center for teaching and learning all of the school disciplines in an integrated, non-conventional manner.
I know of no professor of education on my campus who was as compelling as this group of undergraduates. Students could identify with them in age and pressures of schooling and, in addition, be moved by their capacity to take the formal Philosophy of Education curriculum and root it in soil.
Each time they candidly and humbly shared their story of starting from ignorance and learning from unending, multiple failures on their little plot of lawnscape-turned-foodscape, the resistance and cynicism of their classmates melted.
For thousands of young people bored by the irrelevance of what they are learning and moved by the desire to eat food that heals rather than sickens, the message to become the change they wish to see in the world has the awakening and compelling ring of truth and conviction.
Grounded Education
Simple questions bring my philosophy of education full circle. Questions like these invite us out of confinement into the vast, open outdoors, where millions of peasants are joined by our three philosophers of soil in enjoying the abundant gifts of the earth; no longer fearing toil-on-soil, we learn to teach and savor the gifts of bread labor, re-linking our heads, hearts, and hands (along with miles of intestines) to the soil on which we stand—grounded and well-rooted.
Among the most educated 2 percent of people on our planet, freed from all illusions of the superiority of my knowledge over that of unschooled peasants and farmers, I have also been liberated from the hubris of wanting to liberate the 98 percent who toil on the soil, empowering them with my classroom knowledge and skills. Instead, daily I seek to learn with them, by their side, enjoying the contagious wisdom they gain through toil in soil.
Stood on its head by Gandhi, Illich, and Berry, my philosophy of education is finally finding its feet on the ground, growing roots in real soil.
Madhu Suri Prakash wrote this article as part of , the Fall 2009 issue of YES! Magazine. Madhu is a professor at Pennsylvania State University. Her books include Grassroots Postmodernism, Escaping Education, and the forthcoming No Chive Left Behind.
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Our core value: Everything we do will benefit our clients, the network marketer, first. If we have to choose between profits and clients, the client wins.
Most network marketers fail. I teach them how to apply business, marketing and leadership principles to their network marketing opportunity, to improve their chance of success. I do this by offering free videos, selling a DVD course (called "Network Marketing SRB")
I also am creating an affiliate program where network marketers can sell this course and keep 50-90% of the revenue. While they do this they are collecting (we do it for them) the contact details of those who inquire about the course. In this way they have a source of people, interested in network marketing, who they can pitch their opportunity to. We have strict anti-spam requirements.
I do this because I was doing network marketing very poorly, figured it out and had enough success that a whole bunch of people are contacting me on Facebook for advice. I wnated to create something that REALLY helps these people
Network marketing business owners and opportunity seekers, including the "get-rich-quick" crowd. The "get-rich-quick" crowd jump from opportunity to opportunity whnever they see something shinier.
The SRB or Solid Rocket Booster is a booster rocket, attached to the main rocket and ignited at liftoff, to give the rocket extra thrust to lift larger payloads. At approximately 1½ minutes into flight, the SRBs are jettisoned. See http://spaceyideas.com/images/shutt…osters.jpg
We want to convey that our services will act like an SRB by helping get someone's network marketing business off the ground and into orbit.
We will likely incorporate the logo into a web page header graphic (leaderboard) later with the logo on the left and an SRB definition on the right so the logo should look good at 215 pixel height. The logo will also be used on our DVD lables and covers.
Winner must provide a modifiable vector version of the logo in .ai, .psd or .eps (CMYK)
My first contest, so constructive feedback is appreciated.
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I create works of art out of cake. Yeah, just like those guys on television. And I want to be on Food Network someday, doing the same! The difference for me is that I'm not a classically trained pastry chef. Mostly self-taught with a few encounters with the experts. Lots of trial and error (sometimes errors are easier to swallow when they are edible, lol!). Just like I do with my hairdressers, I love to jump from one talented person to the other... picking up skills and inspiration out of cook books, art, daily life, stretching out in down dog and at the bottom of my cup of Starbucks or pint of Blue Moon.
This isn't your grandmother's wedding cake site! I don't even know how to make a rose out of buttercream and I'm not baking that Duncan Hines box mix! The teachers at the Wilton Cake Design school would slap my hands and kick me out. I love the use of color and unique designs. Well done tattoos rock, but my husband won't go for the cake tattoo! I wear black and white almost every day paint my toe nails red. I love flowers. I get bored with projects easily, so I won't do the same thing twice.
I am passionate about following dreams & taking advantage of your skills. I want to teach people the tools to use to do what I do. I want to foster relationships and build a community of cake artists. I want to have fun doing what I love and make money doing it, lots of it!
Folks in their 20's - 60's, men and women, who are artsy, or at least want to be, and love to bake and do their own thing.
I am targeting anyone who watches designer cake challenges, likes to eat cake, is adventurous in the kitchen and likes to entertain family and friends, doesn't have time to go to pastry school, wants to start a new hobby and/or wants to buy a great gift for a creative friend.
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No cartoons in the logo please
Nothing too elegant - I'm not going for a stuffy, couture wedding feel
Please don't use clip art in the logo or stock photos
Here are a few examples of what I like:
Okay, so I don't like the site design... but I like the black and white storefront deal. Take a look at the pic of their business too. It's a bit whimsical.
I like the feel of this site... the black with the bright use of color in the header. Like the logo on the ribbon with the bow.
Clean and simple. Good. Take a look at the Wedding Cakes... this is what I like to make if that helps you...
I don't want anything that looks/feels like this:
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Phillies All-Stars Contribute to NL Shut-Out Win Over the AL
In an 8-0 win over the American League, 3 Phillies All-Stars made big contributions for the National League. Cole Hamels pitched a perfect 7th inning, probably driving up his free agent value a little bit more. Carlos Ruiz caught the final 4 innings and had one at-bat, a fly-out to left field. And Jonathan Papelbon recorded the final out of the game, sealing the NL victory.
Here are a few MLB photos from the game:
And this next set of MLB photos show Ruiz holding his glove and then the glove R.A. Dickey gave him to use in order to catch his crazy knuckle balls. That glove is almost as big as Chooch! There is also a nice shot of Papelbon and then more adorable Chooch getting a hug from the Nationals teenage rookie, Bryce Harper:
Melky Cabrera of the Cardinals got the MVP award for the game. He had 2 hits, including a homer, and 2 RBI. Some rare events occurred during the game, including 3 triples, 5 rookies playing in the game, and the first shut-out during an All-Star game since 1996, when the game was played in Philadelphia.
The biggest blunder of the game came from 19-year old Harper who lost a routine fly ball in the outfield, which eventually landed behind him. He also got caught leaning too far off base in a fielder's choice and was tagged out.
So now we wait until the Phillies return on Friday to see if they have any gas left to rescue their dreadful season. Roy Halladay will make a rehab start tomorrow so, hopefully, that means he will be back very soon.
In the meantime, here is a fun blast from the All-Star past. These are a few of my favorite All-Star photos from 2008. The top one will never get old…it is Dan Uggla goosing Chase Utley to the surprise of many around them, as you can see by my marker edits. Below that is Utley and Brad Lidge, who appear to be trying to club David Wright. And then there is Mike Schmidt standing up in a moving vehicle (next to Utley) during the All-Star parade to point me out and say hello. I was one Phillies jersey in a sea of Yankees jersey's so I was easy to spot and he was clearly excited to see a Phillies fan! Utley yelled out to me right after that as well. And yes, that was one of the highlights of my simple existence ;o)
By the way, I am hoping to have my video interview with Ryan Howard posted in the next few days, so stay tuned for that!
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The RBC Heritage (formerly the Heritage Classic) is going down in Hilton Head, and this being South Carolina, most of nature is trying to kill you. Brian Gay's third shot on the par-5 15th avoided the water hazard, but the water hazard came up to meet him, in the form of a 10-foot alligator.
"I wasn't going to go near him, but my caddy's not scared of him," Gay said. He could have taken a drop without penalty, but wasn't sure of the rules concerning live hazards. His caddy, Kip Henley, chased the obstinate gator off with a bunker rake, though it took a few tries. And the gator merely backed down, not backed off, setting up shot just far enough away for Gay to hurry a shot.
"He'd go under, and then you don't know where he went, and a couple times he came back at him," said Gay, the 2009 Heritage champion. "I didn't know what was going to happen. Once I saw him 30 feet away I knew I had time to hit it and get out of there."
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The rebel council that sprang up in Libya's liberated eastern cities in February and March has done an admirable job of presenting a united face to the world of the country's rebellion against Muammar Qaddafi.
The group has racked up a string of diplomatic victories, with a dozen countries recognizing them as the "legitimate" representatives of the Libyan people. This week, the group even received praise from China.
But there has also been growing unease that the collection of regime defectors, lawyers, and businessmen, most with roots in the country's east, could be setting themselves up for a power grab once Qaddafi goes.
Rebel fighters in the west of the country have been grumbling that they have little voice with the Transitional National Council (TNC), and others have worried that months of talk about drafting a new Libyan constitution could lead to a document that favors eastern Libyan, not national, interests. The rumblings of dissent – faint to be sure – have had some analysts worried about a war after the war.
Now the council says it hears those concerns, and is taking steps to address them. Fathi Mohammed Baja, head of political affairs for the TNC, says that while a "provisional constitution for the transitional period" was agreed to by the TNC's members on Sunday, that it is neither permanent or binding. He insists TNC leaders won't seek power in a post-Qaddafi Libya, and is taking steps to reach out to and coordinate with resistance figures in the west of the country.
"We have to make it very clear to the Libyan people that this is not a constitution," he says. "We want to avoid at all cost giving the impression that this is the (TNC) in Benghazi deciding the future of Libya."
Mr. Baja says all NTC members have signed a pledge not to run for any office in the first elections following the fall of Qaddafi regime and that the proto-government now extant in Benghazi will not outlive Qaddafi. "The new Libya will not be run from Benghazi," says Baja. "The day we announce the fall of Qaddafi's regime is the day all of us will get on a plane to Tripoli."
The NTC was formed in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, shortly after the violent repression of pro-democracy protests there led to the routing of Qaddafi's troops from eastern Libya. It now serves as a provisional parliament, with an executive committee chosen by the council.
The history of modern Libya has largely been drawn along an east-west fault that draws from both geography and culture. The vast stretch of desert between Qaddafi's hometown of Sirte in the west and the eastern city of Ajdabiyah divided Tripolitania from Cyreneica in ancient times.
The cultural differences that rose from that separation extend to the modern day, and 20th-century Libya was frequently defined by Benghazi's struggle for autonomy and resources with Tripoli. To alloy western suspicions, the eastern rebels have consistently said that Tripoli should by Libya's capital.
Though Qaddafi has hung on against relentless NATO air pressure, when regimes like his crack they crack hard. There has been increasing pressure from the West for the rebels to come up with a plan for the day after, which they hope will encourage top officials from Qaddafi's regime to switch sides.
The provisional constitution addresses some of these issues.
Eastern promise
Under the plan, the existing 45-member council will be enlarged to 60 members immediately following the fall of Tripoli. An extra 10 seats are reserved for top Qaddafi officials, says Baja. "These are people that do not have blood on their hands but know Tripoli and know Qaddafi's secrets. We need these people," he says.
"Too many people have collaborated with the Qaddafi regime," says rebel health minister Naji Barakat. "We can't execute or imprison all of them."
According to Barakat, "only 30 to 40 people," presumably including Qaddafi himself, will be excluded from a role in the new Libya. Some top Qaddafi officials, say NTC members, have already been quietly contacted and have agreed to cooperate.
One thing that they're not planning for is fast elections, in order to give ample time for preparation in a country unfamiliar with democratic government. "Last Saturday we had to intervene in the local school board elections in Benghazi because some people had brought their gunmen to the meeting," says Baja. "We don't want to see that kind of thing repeated on a larger scale in Tripoli."
The plan envisions a national conference to decide on the members of the enlarged council, from which a new provisional government will be chosen.
Some of the seats on the new council have already been filled.
"We will start from the local councils," said Baja. "We are told that the people in Tripoli have already formed four such councils in secret. We shall see. We were given an additional eight names from Tripoli by tribal leaders at their meeting in Dubai."
Constitutional convention
At the same time, 15 people will be asked to begin work on a new constitution. Forty-five days after it is finished, the constitution will be submitted to a popular referendum. Legislative elections will be held four months later, with presidential elections to follow two months after that, he says. "We're looking at a time frame of 10 to 13 months from the fall of the regime to the presidential elections."
The draft constitution says Islam is the religion of the state, but guarantees freedom of religion.
There were long discussions over whether Islam should be "a source" rather than "the only source" of inspiration for future legislation, but the in the end "a source" prevailed. That subtlety of language is frequently argued over for the constitutions of Muslim majority countries, with the weaker "a source" allowing wiggle room for compromise.
Details of the provisional constitution are expected to be released soon, and will be food for further debate among the rebels.
Meanwhile, the members of the executive committee have been busy making their own plans for the transition.
"We are ready," says health minister Barakat, whose office has prepared a detailed plan for taking over the health sector, initially with lots of foreign help.
The cabinet members returned to Benghazi three weeks ago after being publicly admonished by council members and in street demonstrations in Benghazi over their prolonged absences from Libya.
But victory is far from secured. Qaddafi remains in power in Tripoli, as defiant as ever. In mid-June, he vowed to crush NATO troops in the face of renewed bombings on targets in the capital.
Despite help from NATO bombings on Qaddafi troops and installations, the rebels are struggling militarily as Libya's civil war enters its fifth month.
The eastern front near Brega has been at a standstill for months, but an uprising of the Berber population in the Western Mountains and renewed fighting in Zawiya, west of Tripoli, have raised hopes here that anti-Qaddafi forces in Western Libya are ready to take on the regime.
US defense secretary Robert Gates said on June 19 that the demise of the Qaddafi regime was only "a matter of time."
Benghazi running out of money
But time is an enemy of the rebels as well. Transitional Oil and Finance Minister Ali Tarhouni says the NTC is fast running out of money. "We have literally days before the lights are turned off," Tarhouni told The New York Times in mid-June.
The government in Benghazi is footing the bill for most of the fighting in the West. Benghazi's mayor, Saleh el Gazzel, went to the western Mountains just last week to pay government salaries there. Both Misuratah and Zawiya are being supplied with guns and ammunition from cash-strapped Benghazi.
"With oil production at a standstill, we are basically running on zero revenue and 100 percent imports," an adviser to Tarhouni said on condition of anonymity.
Tripoli is increasingly facing the same problem. But, said the adviser, "whether it is weapons or money, the trouble is Qaddafi will always have more than us."
To be sure, any prediction of the course of events after Qaddafi's fall is risky. Not only has Libya suffered from decades of one-man rule, but with a leader resolutely hostile to the building of state institutions, reliant almost entirely on patronage networks and personal contacts. The TNC are making all the right noises today, but there real influence over Libya's future will only really be assessed when the actual transition begins.


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PLANO (AP) - An 87-year-old man is dead after a Christmas tree went up in flames and fire swept through a suburban Dallas home on Christmas Eve.
Three firefighters suffered minor injuries.
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Firefighters were called to the home at about 7 p.m. on Monday. Plano Fire Capt. Peggy Harrell says firefighters pulled the 87-year-old man from the home as it filled with fire and smoke.
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Property is often viewed as a 'fail safe' investment but are savers taking a risk by relying so heavily on one asset? Jonathan Kemp, chief actuary of Takaud, the specialist savings and pensions provider for the Mena region, discusses the issue in an analysis in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.
When asked how they plan to fund their retirement, many will confidently state that their property 'is their pension,' he says.
Research conducted by Towers Watson found that 60 per cent of people living in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region view property as one of the top three ways to save.
According to the latest report from property consultants JLL, residential house prices in Abu Dhabi grew seven per cent during the second quarter of this year, bringing the average increase during the first half of 2014 to 17 per cent.
In Dubai, average sales prices grew by six per cent during the second quarter, with prices back to near pre-2009 financial crisis levels in some areas.
During the UAE's last real estate crash, property prices plunged more than 50 per cent from their peaks.
Against such a volatile backdrop, relying on property to fund retirement begins to feel too risky and too concentrated.
Buy and sell at the right time and you could do well, but with such mixed results, anticipating the market is far from easy.
What is the solution?
The reality is that very few investments are fail safe or guaranteed 100 per cent to keep their value.
When constructing a balanced portfolio of savings and investments, the first thing to consider is what your saving goals are.
These can range from saving for a new home, children's education and weddings through to long-term financial planning for later years.
If you are saving for retirement, for example, what kind of lifestyle do you want? Are you happy to lead a modest lifestyle or are you hoping to enjoy a little more luxury? When do you want to retire?
Once you have established the short-, medium- and long-term objectives, think about what level of risk you are willing to take with your money.
If you are willing to take some risk, investing in stocks and shares might be appropriate for you, but for those who are more risk averse, a more conservative approach is needed to safeguard their capital.
For the majority, a mix of different asset classes offers the best spread, combining equity investments with 'safer' options such as cash and bonds.
Once you have a financial plan in place, try and stick to it. With the ups and downs in the stock market, many investors fall into the 'buy high, sell low trap'.
Instead, view your financial plan as a long-term project and try and avoid the temptation to react to every bump along the road.
Relying too heavily on any one individual investment is best avoided.
While property can play a valuable role in a balanced portfolio, ensuring a mix of other savings and investments is wise.
The market for financial services products in the Mena region is maturing, so speak to an adviser about the options that are available to you - there may be more choices than you think.
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Finance & Development, March 1978
- Fund activity: Transactions and operations in 1977, status of the ratification of the second amendment; gold sales, "restitution" to members, and the Trust Fund; new members; selected data on Fund holdings and commitments
- Bank activity: Population activities are reviewed by Bank and other donors; lending rate revised; IDA credit for second Calcutta urban development project; External Advisory Panel on Education established; industrial finance assistance for Tunisia; new group formed to assist Caribbean development; Bank loans and IDA credits
- Recent growth trends in developing countries: From a World Bank staff study of prospects for developing countries
- The second amendment of the Fund's Articles of Agreement: a general view, I: The first of two articles presenting the background to certain general aspects of the second amendment and a discussion of its content and scope
- The Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: A brief introduction to the origin and structure of the MTN, and data on world trade
- Differential trade treatment for LDCs: An examination of the claims by developing countries for preferential treatment in international trade
- Reciprocity and trade policy of developing countries: Why reciprocity in trade relations might be in the best interests of the developing countries
- International growth, equity, and efficiency: An extension of Fred Hirsch's ideas in his book Social Limits to Growth to a new international order based on "shared growth" among nations
- Toward better project implementation: A review and analysis of the general patterns found in the implementation of Bank-financed projects
- Gold market developments, 1975-77: The supply effects stemming from gold sales by the Fund and the U.S. Treasury have not been a major factor affecting the wide swings in the price of gold in recent years; a report on market trends
- Can education promote development?: The example of Pakistan is used to suggest changes in education strategies in developing countries
- The Fund's new Balance of Payments Manual: How the new version, that supersedes the 1961 edition, was compiled, what it contains, and the ways in which it differs from the earlier editions
- Views & comments: Willy Brandt's opening remarks to the newly formed Independent Commission on International Development, of which he is Chairman
- Book notices
International growth, equity, and efficiency: An extension of Fred Hirsch's ideas in his book Social Limits to Growth to a new international order based on "shared growth" among nations
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U.S. officials saw initial indications the group might seek to take Mosul and urged Iraqi action, to no avail. But on the day of the June 10 takeover, U.S. officials played down its significance. "Obviously, this has got our attention in Mosul, but it doesn't change...


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It charts the return to Haiti by Montreal based Laferriere, who left his motherland to escape Baby Doc's brutal dictatorship. His first stop is New York to attend his father's funeral (who was also an exile). Then it's on to Port-au-Prince to meet up with the family he has not seen for decades, and to give his mother the news of her long lost husband.
The book alternates between poetry and prose as the author tries to come to terms with his return to his homeland; the poverty, the crime and the poor infrastructure. The feelings it arouses in Laferriere are clearly too painful and poignant for a straight description of what he comes across. He uses a lot of simile and metaphor which I think does his experience more justice: 'A day here lasts a lifetime/ You're born at dawn./ You grow up at noon./ You die at twilight.'
I didn't choose this book- it was sent as a substitute for something else by Newbooks Magazine. But it was a happy accident because I loved the beautiful and sharp imagery and although Laferriere doesn't give us a clear resolution, we share his journey all the more for it: 'Returning South after all these years/ I am like someone/ who has had to relearn what he already knows/ but had to forget along the way.'
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CHICAGO – June 26, 2012 – The Joffrey Ballet and Executive Director Christopher Clinton Conway are pleased to announce that Karine Provost has been named the new Managing Director of the Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet, effective immediately. Provost joins the Joffrey Academy with extensive experience managing studio and education programs with dance companies across the country.
"The Joffrey Academy has seen tremendous growth since its opening in 2009, having just been named as one of the Top 10 International Dance Schools," said Conway. "Our new Summer Dance Intensive program in L.A. is about to begin, and with a potential expansion to the Chicago suburbs on the near horizon, someone with Karine's unique skill set is key to managing a growing education program of this scale. We're very pleased to welcome Karine to the Joffrey team."
Before joining the Joffrey Academy, Provost, 30, worked with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago since 2007, where she served as the Manager of Pre-Professional Programs, creating and overseeing Hubbard Street's Summer Intensive program, including its programming, structure, marketing and budget. She also oversaw day-to-day operations at the Lou Conte Dance Studio, working with the Studio Director to schedule and manage studio space, classes, faculty and accompanists. Prior to that, she served as School Manager of The Washington Ballet. Provost holds a Bachelor of Science, Dance and Arts Administration from Butler University in Indianapolis.
As Managing Director of the Joffrey Academy of Dance, Provost will serve as the public face of the Academy through interactions with families and students, members of the Joffrey Board of Directors and Women's Board, funders, current and prospective partner organizations, teachers, principals and school administrators, and other special communities with an interest in the Academy. She will oversee the Academy's 20 faculty and 8 accompanists, plus the programming and day-to-day operations of the Academy's dozens of classes in multiple programs, including Children's, Youth and Adult Divisions, Summer Camps and Summer Intensives, Pre-Professional and Trainee Programs. Approximately 700 students take classes at the Joffrey Academy in any given term.
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The tragic death of Cory Monteith earlier this year left Gleeks wondering what would become of the best TV show since ever, and last week the show's creator Ryan Murphy answered the question with the answer we were all dreading, confirming that Season Six would sadly be the final series at McKinley High. Since the news broke, we've been in a bit of a state of panic wondering what an earth would become of Rachel and co, but one gal we're not too worried about is Naya Rivera, who seems pretty at ease about the conclusion of the show.
Talking at the ELLE Annual Women of Hollywood celebration a couple of nights ago, Naya, who plays Santana in the show, spoke about how happy she is to have been part of such an amazing project, but after the dramatic shake-up with the loss of Cory, the cast need to move on to new things.
"I think we've had a really good run on the show. I think that all good things must come to an end, so whenever that comes to an end, I'll just be grateful that I was even on it."
Naya also spoke about her part in the emotional and moving tribute episode which was filmed to commemorate the life of Cory, who played Finn Hudson since the early days of Glee.
"It was really difficult, it brought tears to my eyes," she said, talking about her performance of "If I Die Young" in the episode. It was definitely tough, but all in all, I think it was a great episode. I'm really proud of everybody."
Trying something a bit different from strutting round in her cheerleading uniform to belt out a few classics, Naya is focusing on her solo music career. Her first solo artist track "Sorry", also features the talents of her fiance rapper, Big Sean.
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Scientific Directorate provides the scientific leadership of FQXi, advised and overseen by the Advisory Council. Scientists participate in FQXi's grant programs, and/or by becoming Members. Grant decisions are made by external review panels, and a Donor Advised Fund administers the grants. Legal and financial oversight are provided by the Board of Directors.
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Scientific Director: Max Tegmark, Professor, MIT
A native of Sweden, Tegmark earned his Ph.D. in physics at Berkeley in 1994. He then worked as a research associate at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik in Munich, as a Hubble Fellow and member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and as faculty at the University of Pennsylvania before joining MIT in 2004. Tegmark's research has focused on cosmology theory and phenomenology, but has also included diverse topics such as interpretations of quantum mechanics, predictions of inflation, and parallel universes.
Associate Scientific Director: Anthony Aguirre, Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Aguirre received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 2000 from Harvard University. He then spent three years as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (narrowly missing Tegmark) before accepting a Professorship at the physics department of the University of California at Santa Cruz. Aguirre has worked on a wide variety of topics in theoretical cosmology, ranging from intergalactic dust to galaxy formation to gravity physics to the large-scale structure of inflationary universes and the arrow of time.
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John Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University
Barrow's research interests are cosmology, the foundations of physics, gravitational and particle physics. Barrow has written a number of popular books on these topics.
Nick Bostrom, Director, Oxford Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
Bostrom's research interests are philosophy of science, ethics, transhumanism, and probability theory.
Gregory Chaitin, Researcher, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Chaitin's research interests include physical and mathematical complexity, algorithmic information theory, metamathematics, and philosophy of science.
David Chalmers, Director, Centre for Consciousness & Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University
Chalmers' research interests include the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and the foundations of physics.
Patricia M. Gruber, President, Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
Previously a psychotherapist in private practice in California, she now devotes herself full time to the Foundation, which she has guided since its inception in 1993, and has been its full-time president since 2000.
Alan Guth, Professor of Physics, MIT
Guth's research interests are cosmology and particle physics, especially inflationary theory.
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Creator, Producer, and Host, "Closer to Truth"
Kuhn has a doctorate in brain science and the author or editor of more than 25 books. He is recognized as an international investment banker and expert on China. He is chairman and founder of The Kuhn Foundation.
Christopher Liedel, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, National Geographic Society
A business leader with strategic planning expertise, Liedel is responsible for financial administration and reporting, overseeing $700 million in investments, information systems, print manufacturing, distribution, and photographic processing for the National Geographic Society.
Bruce McWilliams, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Tessera
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Martin Rees, Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics, Cambridge University
Master of Trinity College and President of the Royal Society, Rees' research interests include understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe (for which he was awarded the 2005 Crafoord Prize) and high-energy astrophysics.
Lee Smolin, Researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Smolin's research interests center on quantum gravity and also include cosmology, particle physics, string theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics.
Melanie Swan, Principal, MS Futures Group
Swan is a researcher and hedge fund manager based in Silicon Valley. She specializes in finance, research, and entrepreneurship, including founding a technology startup company, GroupPurchase, which aggregated small business buying groups.
Frank Wilczek, Professor of Physics, MIT
Wilczek's research interests include particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter physics and the quantum theory of black holes. His work on asymptotic freedom was awarded the 2004 Nobel prize.
Dieter Zeh, Professor Emeritus of Physics at University of Heidelberg
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1001 Inventions Video Clips
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1001 Inventions and The Library of Secrets
Watch the film produced and shown as part of the 1001 Inventions touring exhibition starring Sir Ben Kingsley.
Run Time: 13:33
1001 Inventions: An introduction and overview
1001 Inventions is a unique UK based educational project that reveals the rich heritage that the Muslim community share with other communities across the World.
Run Time: 05:45
The award winning 1001 Inventions exhibit held at the National Geographic Museum reveals the ancient Muslim world's groundbreaking contributions to the science and technology arena and how its influence extends into the present day.
Run Time: 15:47
National Geographic Live! : Salim Al-Hassani: 1001 Inventions
What do water fountains, rocket jet packs, and graduation robes all have in common? Emeritus Professor Salim T.S. Al-Hassani reveals the enduring legacy of Muslim civilization.
Run Time: 24:59
Emir of Qatar Visits 1001 Inventions Doha
Emir of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, visited the award-winning 1001 Inventions show in Doha today, accompanied by HH Sheikha Al-Mayassa, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Qatar Museums Authority.
Run Time: 02:57
Royal Launch for 1001 Inventions Abu Dhabi
The latest 1001 Inventions exhibition, and the first designed specifically for a Middle East audience, enjoyed a glamorous Royal launch in the UAE's capital.
Run Time: 07:24 & 06:58
Library of Secrets LIVE! (Cheltenham Science Festival)
This event was part of the Cheltenham Science Festival and took place on the 12th of June 2011, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Run Time: 35:44
ألف اختراع واختراع" معرض إسلامي في لوس أنجلوس"
Alhurra TV: 1001 inventions California Exhibition
Run Time: 03:40
NBC News Conference with Conan Nolan
The 1001 Inventions exhibition at California Science Center was featured on Southern California's NBC4 channel, a programme with Conan Nolan.
Run Time: 06:10
Arabick Roots Exhibition - Royal Launch
The 'Arabick Roots' exhibition was launched at the Royal Society in London on the 9th of February 2011 by HH Sheikha Mozah of Qatar.
Run Time: 10:00
Hillary Clinton launches 1001 Inventions in Los Angeles
U.S Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton launches the '1001 Inventions' touring exhibition at California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Run Time: 07:13
Imagine a world without them?
Coffee, computers and piston engines - could we imagine a world without them? VOA's Sonja Pace reports from the British capital.
Run Time: 03:43
Speech by President Barack Obama in Egypt:
Civilisation's Debt to Islam...
Delivered at Cairo University, Egypt on 4th of June 2009
Run Time: 01:33
'Interfaith Dialog Between Civilisations' conference at the United Nations in New York, 12th November 2008.
Language: Arabic
Run Time: 04:20
Run Time: 05:09
Aljazeera TV Channel Interview:
Interview with Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani, Chief Editor of 1001 Inventions Book
Language: Arabic
Run Time: 63:30
Muslim Heritage in Our School
Find out some of the every day items in our schools that came to us through a shared heritage with Muslim Civilisation.
Run Time: 04:18
Al-Jazari's 800 year old automatic Elephant clock using water technology. An example of the Muslim origins of modern automation and robotics.
Run Time: 05:57
Muslim Heritage in Our Hospitals
Find out some of the items in our hospitals that came to us through a shared heritage with Muslim Civilisation.
Run Time: 04:35
Engineering: Professor Al-Hassani on the History Channel
Muslim contributions to modern engineering and the birth of automation.
Run Time: 08:10
Muslim Heritage in Our Homes
Find out some of the every day items in our homes that came to us through a shared heritage with Muslim Civilisation.
Run Time: 04:44
Scribe Clock
See al-Jazari's water powered scribe clock brought back to life after 800 years.
Run Time: 03:39
British scientist, author and a broadcaster. Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Surrey.
Run Time: 23:13
Dubai Ramadan Lecture, October 2006
Run Time: 06:56
Calligrapher Hasan Celebi
Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani, chief editor of 1001 Inventions book visited Hattat Hasan Celebi, one of world's mostly renowned calligraphers...
Run Time: 01:46
Professor George Saliba Lectures
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London Lecture (Run Time: 64:18) and his other lectures.
MBC News
1001 Inventions Croydon Exhibition, mbc, Middle East Broadcasting Channel
Run Time: 02:26
Islam TV
1001 Inventions Croydon Exhibition on Islam Channel TV
Run Time: 02:45
(In Urdu) by Metro One TV (Pakistan) Science and Technology show...
Run Time: 08:02
Professor Salim Al-Hassani delivering key note speech at Jeddah Conference for Knowledge Economy
January 2008, Copyright MuslimHeritage.com
Run Time: 22.39
Aljazeera Childrens TV: Coverage of 1001 Inventions Exhibition Glasgow (UK)
Language: Arabic. Copyright Dunia Media
Run Time: 03:10
Aljazeera TV: Coverage of MuslimHeritage.com
Language: Arabic. Copyright Dunia Media
Run Time: 02:31
1001 inventions in Glasgow Science Center
Professor Salim Al-Hassani speech Run Time: 04:30
Nuria Medina Garcia speech Run Time: 04:34
Councillor Allan Stewart speech Run Time: 01:54
Nicola Sturgeon speech Run Time: 05:48
1001 Inventions: Launch at Birmingham's Think Tank Museum
Copyright MuslimHeritage.com
Run Time: 05;45
BBC Science Adam Hart Davis presents 1001 Inventions
Copyright BBC 2006
Part1 Run Time: 04:32
Part2 Run Time: 04:38
Documentaries which are related to 1001 Inventions projects:
Along with Christianity, the Dark Ages saw the emergence of another vital religion - Islam. After emerging in the near East it spread across North Africa and into Europe, bringing its unique artistic style with it. Waldemar Januszczak examines the early artistic explorations of the first people in Muslim Civilisation, the development of their mosques and their scientific achievements.
Run Time: 59:35
This was also the Golden Age of Islam. And the knowledge of ancient civilisations from India, Persia and Greece were built upon by Islamic scholars in Baghdad's House of Wisdom.
Run Time: 59:11
The art critic and art lover, Waldemar Januszczak, sets out on an epic journey of discovery across the Muslim world from Central Asia, to the heart of the Middle East and beyond to reveal a world of awe-inspiring architecture, spectacular Islamic treasures and a host of artists and craftsmen – to bring the largely unknown and fascinating story of Islamic art and architecture to the attention of the British public.
Run Time: 1:33:25
Why is 'x' the symbol for an unknown? In this short and funny talk, Terry Moore gives the surprising answer.
Run Time: 03:57
Dr. Adam John Hart-Davis builds and tests some of the most extraordinary inventions from the early Islamic World.
Run Time: 57:09
Historian Bettany Hughes traces the story of the mysterious and misunderstood Moors, the Islamic society that ruled in Spain for 700 years.
Run Time: 102:01
Science and Islam (3 Part)
British scientist Prof. Jim Al-Khalili travels from Spain to Syria to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.
Run Time: 59:00 x 3
After Rome Holy War and Conquest (2 Part)
Boris Johnson travels from France to Syria to investigate the early beginnings of what some people now call 'the clash of civilisations.'
Run Time: 58:50 x 2
Denia: A Muslim Port in Spain
A Time Team special as part of the On the Line season. A Muslim port is revealed under this modern-day Spanish town.
Run Time: 46:03
Prof. Marcus du Sautoy he looks at the invention of the new language of algebra and the spread of Eastern knowledge to the West through mathematicians.
Run Time: 13:01
Narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, A three-part series, re-creates the spectacular sweep of Islamic power and faith during its first 1,000 years.
Run Time: 53:00 x 3
A three-part series of documentary travelogues in which Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of 14th Century Moroccan scholar Ibn Battuta
Run Time: 58:56 x 3
Rageh Omaar uncovers the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past and looks back to a Golden Age when European civilisation was enriched by Islamic learning.
Run Time: 88:55
Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon travels from southern to northern Spain to tell the story of some of Europe's most exciting and vital art.
Run Time: 58:54
An epic journey back into a centuries-long period when Muslims, Christians and Jews inhabited the same far corner of Western Europe and thrived.
Run Time: 114:51
Documentaries on Zheng He - the Chinese Muslim Admiral
Chinese Treasure Fleet - Adventures of Zheng He (1:33:28)
IMAX - Emperor of the Seas (52:36)
Ghost Fleet: The Epic Voyage of Zheng He (Preview)


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Barack Obama says that arguing over an adjustment to the statutory debt ceiling is irresponsible. Tim Geithner calls it "playing chicken" with the nation's finances. They are trying to convince the American public that raising the limit is mainstream and its opponents are extremists, but their latest opponent flips that argument on its head:
Sen. Mark Pryor said Wednesday he won't vote to raise the federal government's borrowing limit unless there's a commitment to address the nation's debt by cutting spending and overhauling the tax code. …
"What I've told anyone who will listen to me in Washington, including my leadership, is that I'm not going to vote for that unless there is a real and meaningful commitment to debt reduction," Pryor told the group at its monthly meeting at the governor's mansion.
What makes Pryor different? He's a Democrat, not a Republican, which makes the White House demonization campaign a little harder to employ.
Pryor isn't even known as a particular firebreather or aisle-crosser, not like Joe Lieberman on the war or Zell Miller when he served in the Senate. Furthermore, Pryor isn't up for re-election in 2012. Pryor doesn't have to worry about an election until 2014.
But plenty of other Democrats are up for re-election in 2012, and in states that are going to be decidedly less friendly to Democrats. If Pryor crosses the aisle on the debt limit, that puts pressure on people like Joe Manchin, who has to face his West Virginia constituents next year, as well as already-endangered incumbents like Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, and more. Assuming Republicans hold firm, only two more need to cross the aisle on the debt-ceiling vote to produce a tie, and three to take the matter out of Joe Biden's hands altogether.
The White House is going to have to agree to attach some sort of meaningful reform to the debt-ceiling hike to get it passed. That will have to take the form of either entitlement changes that significantly reduce outlays or a massive shift in the tax code — or preferably all of the above. Pryor just made it clear that there will be no "clean" debt-ceiling hike, and that the Obama administration will have to pay dearly to get its borrowing power extended.
Update: Perhaps sensing this, Republicans on the Hill are trying to use their leverage to the maximum:
One day after being named to a presidential task force to negotiate deficit reduction, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor fired off a stark warning to Democrats that the GOP "will not grant their request for a debt limit increase" without major spending cuts or budget process reforms.
The Virginia Republican's missive is a clear escalation in the long-running Washington spending war, with no less than the full faith and credit of the United States hanging in the balance.
In the most recent budget battle — over a six-month spending bill — Republican leaders carefully avoided threatening to shut down the government. Now, Cantor says he's ready to plunge the nation into default if the GOP's demands are not met. People close to Cantor say that he hopes to make clear that small concessions from Democrats, including President Barack Obama, will not be enough to deliver the GOP on a debt increase.
Will they get those large concessions? They did manage to get Obama to keep tax rates at the current level in December despite having control of, well, nothing at that time. Obama could also be thinking of 2012 and the ability to run as a triangulator. Given what happened in December and this month on the budget, Senate Democrats like Harry Reid have to be thinking that they need to cut a deal before Obama cuts their legs out from underneath them a third time.


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Melissa Davis' husband had six domestic-violence arrests in less than a year of marriage, and was released by a judge on his own recognizance.
Katie Hadel's ex-boyfriend was let out of jail early on good behavior.
And Candace Hurt's husband had three women seek court protection against him but didn't follow through.
Davis, Hadel and Hurt all were killed this year in what police describe as domestic homicides by these men. Police, prosecutors or court officials had been in touch with each of them in the months, days, or, in Davis' case, hours before they died.
Advocates for victims of domestic violence say these and other cases expose cracks in a system that is supposed to protect the vulnerable — and raise the question of whether police and courts can effectively identify people who pose a deadly threat to their partners.
Five women have been killed in Baltimore so far this year in what police say were domestic homicides, compared with an average of six in each of the previous four years.
At a legislative oversight hearing this week, top police officials took questions about the killings. Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said the deaths are contributing to this year's uptick in murders. He pointed out that there had been no domestic murders at this point last year.
"I have been alarmed by the number of domestic issues," Batts said.
Particularly vexing for Davis' family is the fact that her husband, Daren Ruffin, was released by a court hours before her death. He had been charged with assaulting her but was not required to post bail.
On Tuesday, Ruffin pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Davis. He was ordered held pending a trial in May.
Family members say there were many opportunities — in Maryland and elsewhere — for police and prosecutors to stop the violent cycle.
"There's a trail of people who are accountable," said Teneka Williams, a cousin of Davis.
Law enforcement officials say the cases show some of the inherent challenges in confronting domestic violence. It can be difficult for police, prosecutors or judges to determine whether a relationship is dangerous. Police in Baltimore handle several thousand domestic violence complaints every year. And the task is made more challenging when victims are unwilling or afraid to work with authorities.
Davis declined to testify against Ruffin in an earlier assault case, and he was acquitted. Hadel was under police observation at a family member's house but was killed after she returned to her own apartment without notifying officers.
Police, prosecutors and advocates say they've made progress in addressing domestic violence, and the number of domestic-related homicides had dropped significantly in both Baltimore and the state in previous years.
Yet despite their efforts, recent cases highlight the amount of work that remains.
Advocates are trying to fill the gaps in the judicial system with volunteer outreach coordinators, and by pushing for stronger laws. They say their efforts will never stop all domestic homicides, but they're hoping for a further reduction in violence.
"When there are these terrible tragedies, we keep trying to make the system as close to perfect as possible," said Tracy Brown, executive director of the Women's Law Center of Maryland.
Brenda Ballard, Davis' mother, remembers the way her daughter would dote on the man she married — getting up at 3:30 a.m., for example, to make him breakfast.
The devotion was not returned, Ballard said, as Ruffin was arrested on several assault charges, first in Massachusetts and later in Maryland.
The marriage ended in tragedy in January with Davis found dead of stab wounds in the couple's Baltimore apartment and Ruffin charged with first-degree murder. His lawyer, a public defender, was not present at Ruffin's arraignment Tuesday and did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Davis' family has criticized the Baltimore justice system for what members say was a failure to protect Davis from Ruffin, but court officials say the volume of cases they handle makes it difficult to determine which victims are most at risk.
The Baltimore court commissioner who released Ruffin without bail after his sixth assault arrest in late January is no longer on the job. The commissioner, Eric Gooden, did not respond to requests for comment. Officials would not discuss the circumstances of his departure.
Dorothy Lennig, director of the legal clinic at House of Ruth Maryland, said Davis' case calls for examining whether officials could have done anything differently.
"These are the hardest kinds of cases because, in retrospect, you can see the whole picture, and you can kind of see where things don't work," she said.
Protective orders
Katie Hadel's mother says Jeffrey Matthew Shiflett, the man now charged in her death, had threatened her daughter for years.
Shiflett and Hadel had a brief relationship years ago, her family said, but she had broken it off and gotten married.
Shiflett had been behind bars for a robbery he'd committed with Hadel in 2007. But by December, he had earned enough prison credit that he was required to be released on good behavior.
After his release, police advised Hadel, 33, to stay at her mother's house, where officers would check on her a few times a day. Against their advice, police said she returned to her apartment in Garrison on Feb. 5, and was stabbed to death.
Shiflett was arrested the following day and charged with first-degree murder.
Shiflett is being held without bond awaiting a preliminary hearing this month on the murder charge. His lawyer, a public defender, did not respond to several requests for comment.
Victim advocates say Hadel's case highlights the limitations of state law regarding protective and peace orders. Both kinds of orders limit contact between the two people, yet protective orders last longer and can have stronger protections.
In a protective order, a judge can order a subject to surrender firearms, leave a joint residence or provide temporary financial support. A final protective order can last up to a year, with possible extensions, while peace orders only last up to six months.
Protective orders are also more difficult to get. They are available only against a current or former spouse, a partner with whom the petitioner has a child, or live-in partner of at least three months.
Hadel made at least three requests for court protection against Shiflett but was eligible only for a peace order.
Lisae Jordan, executive director of the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault, said protective orders should include people who are dating or have lived with each other for less than 90 days so they cover all relationships.
"They have the same kinds of issues and dynamics that people who are living together have," she said.
But being eligible to request a protective order is only half the battle. In Maryland, a petitioner must show proof of danger before being granted a protective order. Jordan said that hurdle has been a "consistent problem" in Maryland.
Tracy West, an Anne Arundel County woman whom police say was shot by her estranged husband, tried to obtain two protective orders against him. She obtained a temporary order against Calvin Cofield on New Year's Eve, but a judge denied a permanent order, saying there was insufficient evidence that it was necessary.
Police say Cofield shot and wounded West at her workplace, a newspaper distribution center in Annapolis, in late January before killing himself.
West was discharged from the hospital Feb. 13. Attempts to reach her were unsuccessful.
On Feb. 19, police logged another domestic homicide in Baltimore. Police say Candace Hurt, a state probation agent who volunteered with a nonprofit conflict resolution center, was shot to death by her husband, Alvin Baird, who killed himself afterward.
Hurt had applied for a protective order in late December, after Baird allegedly pulled a gun on her. But she didn't return to court, so a final protective order was never issued.
Two other women filed for legal protection against Baird in the past four years, but they also failed to return to court to finish applying for long-term orders.
Jacquelyn Campbell, a professor at the school of nursing at Johns Hopkins University, said some women understand their risk, but, as a coping mechanism, choose to ignore it.
"That is very scary, to walk around all day thinking the person who somewhere along the line was supposed to love you the most is capable of killing you," Campbell said.
Baltimore Sun reporters Justin Fenton, Kevin Rector and Ian Duncan contributed to this article.


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If you ever plan on uploading prototype pics onto the internet or sending Kotaku secret factory photos, there's one thing you must remember: modern day electronics have reflective surfaces.
Codenamed "Pepper", the Xperia MT27i's newly leaked specs aren't nearly as impressive as the rumoured specs for the Xperia LT28at, Sony's upcoming "super phone": 3.7-inch display and 5MP camera as opposed to the LT28at's rumoured 4.55-inch display and 13MP camera.
Japanese web forum 2ch was quick to point out that the individual who leaked the photos appears in the leaked photos. His reflection is visible in the photos.
2ch commenters assumed that the individual snapped photos in a Chinese Sony factory, but with CES around the corner, these could have been taken anywhere. (2ch also largely derided this Xperia as "not cool".)
Previously, a worker at one of Sony's Chinese factories apparently leaked the first PS3 Slim photos back in May 2009. The PS3 Slim, however, didn't have a shiny surface, sparing that mole internet infamy.


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|Search Results (38 videos found)
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An interdisciplinary, intergenerational team developed SearchKids, a zoomable digital library that contains multimedia information about animals. Our digital library supports collaboration by enabling several children to navigate the same information...
Genre: Educational
Keywords: Children; Library; HCIL;
Duration: 00:06:00
Popularity (downloads): 736
|Tessa Sullivan: Technical Challenges in Classification Analysis of the ACM Digital Library
Genre: Educational
Keywords: ACM Digital Library; user interface; research methodology; datamining; research; digital library; ACM;
Duration: 00:21:17
Popularity (downloads): 16
|ENDECA Talk: Implementing a Faceted Search Framework
Genre: Educational
Keywords: ENDECA; Search; facets; libraries; library; information retrieval; research; digital library;
Duration: 01:24:09
Popularity (downloads): 16
|America's Millenium on the Mall - Blues: Past and Future - B.B. King, a Living Library
In the ninth segment William Ferris praises B.B. King as a "living library."
Genre: Educational
Keywords: Pepticon; tonic; melodic line; progressions; keeping the beat;
Duration: 00:04:48
Popularity (downloads): 414
|An Animated Direct-Manipulation Interface to Digital Library Services
Video demonstration from the 1997 CHI conference.
Genre: Educational
Keywords: Animated; Interface; Digital; Library; CHI;
Duration: 00:06:58
Popularity (downloads): 1042
|HCIL Symposium 2002 - International Children's Digital Library, segment 03 of 10
A design team consisting of young children and adults work on a design for a "Children's Digital Book Library".
Genre: Educational
Keywords: HCIL;University of Maryland;HCI;
Duration: 00:01:53
Popularity (downloads): 448
|HCIL Symposium 2003 - International Children's Digital Library, segment 03 of 7
A design team consisting of young children and adults work on a design for a "Children's Digital Book Library". The current corpus of materials contains items from 27 different...
Genre: Educational
Keywords: HCIL;University of Maryland;HCI;
Duration: 00:05:45
Popularity (downloads): 487
|HCIL 2005 - segment 01 - International Children's Library Grows
This video presents the design rationale and process for creating the searching and browsing tool for the International ChildrenÕs Digital Library (ICDL).
Genre: Educational
Keywords: HCIL; University of Maryland; HCI; ICDL; children interface; browsing;
Duration: 00:06:58
Popularity (downloads): 190
|Bringing Treasures to the Surface: Previews and Overviews in a Prototype for the Library of Congress National Digital Library
Video demonstration from the 1998 CHI conference. We worked with a team from the Library of Congress (LC) to develop interface design components for LCÕs American Memory collections of...
Genre: Educational
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Duration: 00:07:42
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|SearchKids: a Digital Library Interface for Young Children
Video presentation from the 2002 CHI conference. As more information resources become accessible using computers, our digital interfaces to those resources need to be appropriate for all people. However,...
Genre: Educational
Keywords: CHI: Children; digital libraries; information retrieval design techniques; education applications; participatory design; cooperative inquiry; intergenerational design team
Duration: 00:06:44
Popularity (downloads): 659


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Nailbiz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 87 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
Nail Queen
Opening a new nail salon that will be contemporary and casual. The salon will do nails only. I tend to gravitate towards organic and simple designs. I have toyed with the idea of incorporating a crown in the logo somehow.
Women in the age group of 20 to 40. They will want value as well as a quality experience at the salon. Should not look like a typical strip mall salon.
Need something that is scalable that can be used for business cards, brochures, web design and possibly signage. Don't want anything too simple or too fussy, something inbetween. No colors have been set yet, but would definitely gravitate more towards the natural colors than say anything primary like blue, yellow or red. Needs to have the words Nail Queen without the LLC. I would like to see some with the layout of "Nail" and then a graphic (maybe a simple crown) and then "Queen."
Thank you for your help!
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Christine McKinley is a mechanical engineer, musician, and author. Her musical Gracie and the Atom, won a Portland Drammy for Original Score. Her book Physics for Rock Stars was published in 2014 by Penguin Random House. Christine hosted Brad Meltzer's Decoded on History Channel and Under New York on Discovery Channel.
McKinley's speaking agent is Jodi Solomon Speakers.
Photos of McKinley were taken by Alicia J. Rose