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In Pakistan, Literary Spring Is Both Renaissance And Resistance
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On one of the first weekends of the Pakistani spring, more than 45,000 people gathered in the city of Lahore for three days of lectures, performances and old-fashioned people watching. The second annual Lahore Literary Festival brought artists from all over the world to Pakistan's cultural capital to share their work — and to celebrate the power of expression.
In the shadow of the violence and political instability of recent years, cultural gatherings in Lahore have all but disappeared. It was once a royal capital and center for learning, known for its vibrant street parties, ancient buildings and literary forums.
Today, security has become the overriding concern. Terrorist attacks have targeted public spaces, media personalities and independent thinkers in particular. Journalist Ahmed Rashid, who has charted the rise of the Taliban for decades, has faced death threats. "They have directly threatened large numbers of journalists including myself," Rashid says. "They have attacked newspaper offices and TV stations in Karachi in particular. They have tried to stop art exhibitions and music and concerts and then all this talk about wanting a Shariah state. All of this is creating a lot of tension."
In this climate, Rashid says, fear has become the new normal: "It's discussed every day. When I meet my friends, I mean that's literally what we talk about."
For historian Ayesha Jalal, the violence has left deep, invisible wounds. "I think it's underestimated what Pakistan has gone through in terms of the internal threat, the narrowing of public discourse, the closing of the mind."
Making Art Despite The Crises
The Lahore Literary Festival was not a protest against terrorism. Instead, it was an effort to open the Pakistani mind — to make space for ideas. Festival organizer Razi Ahmed says he wanted to bring world-class conversations to his city and "make Pakistanis aware of what prevails beyond the borders."
After months of preparations, wrangling visas and ensuring security, Ahmed and his team invited artists from across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East to Lahore. From Indian novelist Vikram Seth to Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair, artists spoke in packed lecture halls. The lectures were free and open to the public. Most of the audiences were filled with young people.
For many of them, it was also an opportunity to meet their Pakistani role models — a new generation of artists with roots in Lahore who have achieved success on the international stage. From novelist Mohsin Hamid, the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, to MacArthur Prize-winning visual artist Shazia Sikander and the Sachal Jazz Ensemble — the festival was a showcase for a creative, inclusive and thriving side of Pakistan.
Historian Ayesha Jalal says the collective failure of the Pakistani government and society to provide stability has not prevented artists from excelling. Instead, she says that collective failure is fueling both ambition and imagination.
"If you look at Latin America, you'll see that art has flourished in the most coercive, authoritarian regimes," Jalal says. "And Pakistan is no different. I think collective failure is matched often by personal, individual success, spectacular success. Those are not unusual. ... And in Pakistan I think we've had a collective failure on many scores and there have been individuals who have done work of great brilliance, in the world of art, in the world of literature and music."
Many artists and authors in Pakistan are reacting to this collective failure, says writer Mohsin Hamid. The result is work that feels both original and urgent, brimming with ideas and reminders of a history and an identity beyond extremism. Hamid says both artists and the organizers of the literary festival draw inspiration from the multicultural history of Lahore, which was once home to a large Sikh and Hindu population, a regional capital in the British Empire and an open city.
The classical dancer Nahid Siddiqui presented a piece at the literary festival drawing on both Hindu and Muslim traditions and she says "my political statement ... if you want to call it that — is through dance ... it's easing into people by saying this is your own, this is our own, so please do not reject it."
Finding Validation In Numbers
But beyond those deeper themes, the packed grounds of the literary festival are also a reminder of how starved people feel for spaces to hang out. Beyond the fortified perimeter walls and armed gunmen, families and friends lounged on yellow and red cushions, drank chai and chased authors for autographs and selfies.
Artist and curator Salima Hashmi says there's a kind of validation in those numbers. "People shrugged off fear ..." she says. "They were enjoying themselves and they were listening and talking. There were young people there, that was the most wonderful thing about it. There were students who they had come to listen to people they had read, but apart from that, they wanted to see one another. They wanted to feel: Oh, there are a whole lot of us!"
And historian Ayesha Jalal says she sees hope for Pakistan in privately led initiatives like the Lahore Literary Festival. "There's a real thirst for this in this society and that is the great hope for Pakistan," Jalal says. "Despite all that has happened, despite the supposed Talibanization of the mind, the resistance strands have also been there and unlike in the past, there's a more concerted attempt now — not least because of the negative profiling of Pakistan globally — that Pakistanis want to be noticed on the scene. They want to make an impact. That's the spirit with which the Lahore Literary Festival was framed and put out for the world to see."
After 25 Years Of Amnesia, Remembering A Forgotten Tiananmen
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Twenty-five years ago, on April 15, 1989, Chinese students were mourning the death of a reformist leader. But what began as mourning evolved into mass protests demanding democracy. Demonstrators remained in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, day after day, until their protests were brutally suppressed by the Chinese army — on June 4. Hundreds died; to this day, no one knows how many.
The media captured some of the story of the massacre in Beijing. But Louisa Lim, NPR's longtime China correspondent, says the country's government has done all it can in the intervening 25 years to erase the memory of the uprising. Lim's forthcoming book, The People's Republic of Amnesia, relates how 1989 changed China and how China rewrote what happened in 1989 in its official version of events. Her story includes an investigation into a forgotten crackdown in the southwestern city of Chengdu — which, to this day, has never been reported.
It was in Chengdu, which is now a bustling mega-city with a population of 14 million, that Lim met Tang Deying.
Tang Deying holds her determination in the stubborn set of her jaw. This diminutive, disheveled, elderly woman shuffling into the room in her pink plastic flip-flops is one of the few living links to the crackdown in Chengdu during the summer of 1989.
When martial law troops opened fire on civilians in Beijing on June 4, 1989, the violence was beamed immediately into living rooms around the world. Yet it has taken a quarter-century for details to emerge of the deadly events in Chengdu that cost Tang's 17-year-old son his life.
For 25 years, a single aim has driven Tang's existence: seeking restitution and accountability for the death of her son, Zhou Guocong, who was fatally beaten in police custody after disappearing in the 1989 Chengdu crackdown.
"Right is right. Wrong is wrong," she told me firmly.
That simple mantra became the starting point for me to pursue a trail of evidence sprawling over three continents, including eyewitness accounts, old photographs, hastily scribbled, anguished journal entries, U.S. diplomatic cables and the Chinese government records laying out the official version of events. These disparate threads entwine to illustrate Chengdu's forgotten tragedy, which has been almost entirely wiped from the collective memory.
Protests in Chengdu mirrored those in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, with students mourning the sudden death from a heart attack of reformist party leader Hu Yaobang on April 15, 1989. This soon morphed into mass protests, followed by a hunger strike beginning in mid-May.
Students occupied Chengdu's Tianfu Square, camping at the base of its 100-foot-tall Chairman Mao statue and proudly proclaiming it to be a "Little Tiananmen." The initial move by police to clear protesters from Tianfu Square on the morning of June 4 went ahead relatively peacefully.
But on hearing the news that troops had opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, the citizens of Chengdu took to the streets once more. This time they knew the risk; they carried banners denouncing the "June 4th massacre" and mourning wreaths with the message: "We Are Not Afraid To Die."
Soon the police moved in with tear gas. Pitched battles broke out in Tianfu Square. Protesters threw paving stones at the police; the police retaliated by beating protesters with batons.
At a nearby medical clinic, the bloodied victims of police brutality lay in rows on the floor. Kim Nygaard, an American resident of Chengdu, recalled that they begged her: "Tell the world! Tell the world!"
A row of patients sat on a bench, their cracked skulls swathed in bandages, their shirts stained scarlet near the collar, visceral evidence of the police strategy of targeting protesters' heads.
But the violence went both ways: Dennis Rea, an American then teaching at a local university, watched, horrified, as the crowd viciously attacked a man they believed to be a policeman. The crowd pulled at his arms and legs, then dropped him on the ground and began stomping on his body and face, crushing it.
Eight people were killed that day, including two students, according to the local government's official account. It said the fighting left 1,800 people injured — of them, it said, 1,100 were policemen — though it described most of the injuries as light.
But U.S. diplomats at the time told The New York Times they believed as many as 100 seriously wounded people had been carried from the square that day.
Protests continued into the next evening, and as June 5 turned into June 6, a crowd broke into one of the city's smartest hotels, the Jinjiang. It was there, under the gaze of foreign guests, that one of the most brutal — and largely forgotten — episodes of the Chengdu crackdown played out after a crowd attacked the hotel.
More than a dozen Western guests initially took shelter in the quarters of the U.S. consul general. But in the early hours of the morning while returning to her room, Nygaard saw what looked like sandbags piled in the courtyard. As she wondered what they would be used for, she spotted a flicker of movement and realized with a chill of horror that the sandbags were actually people lying face-down on the ground, their hands secured behind their backs.
"I remember so well, because I was thinking, 'Oh my God, they're breaking their arms when they're doing that,' " she told me.
Eventually, two trucks pulled up. Nygaard remembers that moment vividly: "They piled bodies into the truck, and we were, like, 'There's no way you could survive that.' Certainly the people on the bottom would have suffocated. They picked them up like sandbags, and they threw them into the back of the truck. They threw them like garbage."
Five separate witnesses described the same scene, which was also mentioned in a U.S. diplomatic cable. The witnesses estimated they had seen 30 to 100 bodies thrown into the trucks.
The local government made no secret of the detentions. The Whole Story of the Chengdu Riots, a Chinese-language book recounting the official version of events, notes that "70 ruffians" had been caught at the Jinjiang hotel.
As to what happened to those detainees and how many — if any — of them died, it is impossible to know.
The Chengdu protests were immediately labeled "political turmoil" on a par with Beijing, with the protesters seen as "rioters," stigmatizing all who took part. This instant rewriting of history was the first step toward lowering a blanket of state-sponsored amnesia over the events of 1989.
Why does it even matter 25 years later? It matters because of Tang Deying, who has been punished for her refusal to forget. Her son, who was detained riding his bike home on June 6, never emerged from police custody. She was told by another detainee that he'd been beaten to death. On her quest for an explanation of his death, she has visited Beijing five times to lodge official complaints. Each time she was intercepted and sent back. She has been detained by police, beaten, placed under surveillance and twice locked in an iron cage.
But her stubbornness paid out hard-won dividends. In 2000, she was presented with a photograph of her son's corpse, which confirmed the painful knowledge of how he died. Blood was congealed around his nostrils and on one side of his mouth. There was a large bruise across his nose, and his face appeared swollen and uneven. One of his eyes was slightly open. On seeing it, she fainted. In death, her son was still watching her.
In 2006, she accepted a "hardship allowance" of almost $9,000, becoming the first and only person to be given a government payout in connection with a 1989 death. The authorities expected her to stop her activities — but she hasn't. She says those responsible still need to admit their culpability.
What happened in Chengdu 25 years ago matters enough that the local government continues to devote financial and human resources to muzzling Tang. Her treatment shows how scared the Chinese authorities are of their own recent history.
A quarter-century ago, the government used guns and batons to suppress its own people. Now it is deploying more sophisticated tools of control — censorship of the media and the falsification of its own history — to build patriotism and create a national identity.
Though China's citizens have become undeniably richer and freer in the post-Tiananmen era, Tang Deying's experience shows the limits to that freedom. Simply by keeping alive a memory that others have suppressed or simply forgotten, Tang has become seen as a threat to social stability.
What happened in Chengdu matters because it shows the success of the Chinese government in not just controlling its people, but also in controlling their memories. In the China of today, that most personal space of all — memory — has become a political tool.
'Grapes Of Wrath' Is 75, But Its Depictions Of Poverty Are Timeless
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Much has been said and written about the Dust Bowl, but if you want to get a visceral feel for how it all began and the way it affected the people who experienced it, you need go no further than the opening pages of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath:
Men stood by their fences and looked at the ruined corn, drying fast now, only a little green showing through the film of dust. The men were silent and they did not move often. And the women came out of the houses to stand beside their men — to feel whether this time the men would break. The women studied the men's faces secretly, for the corn could go, as long as something else remained.
Steinbeck's novel follows the Joad family as they flee Dust Bowl Oklahoma for a new life in California. When the book was first published — 75 years ago Monday — it was a best-seller. But Susan Shillinglaw, an English professor at San Jose State University and author of the book On Reading The Grapes of Wrath, says it also came under fierce attack.
"Part of the shock, initially, was resistance to believing that there was that kind of poverty in America," she says. "Other people thought that Steinbeck was a communist, and they didn't like the book because they thought that that collective action that the book is moving towards — because it really is moving from 'I' to 'we' — was threatening to, sort of, American individualism."
As powerful as the book is in its portrayal of the Dust Bowl era, Shillinglaw says The Grapes of Wrath cannot be contained by its setting. She believes Steinbeck created a timeless myth.
"He saw dispossession as a theme and as a story much larger than, you know, the California story," she says. "So I think he always knew what he was about in terms of the sort of mythic parallels. Tom Joad's exit from the book, for example — you know, he exits saying, 'I'll be there wherever people are hungry' — so he kind of says: Throughout time, there's going to be a need for me. And that takes the book out of the 1930s."
Tom Joad's final words to his mother have echoed down the years, driven not in small part by Henry Fonda's portrayal of Joad in the 1940 film version of the book.
"I'll be all aroun' in the dark," Tom says. "I'll be ever'where — wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. ... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an' — I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build — why, I'll be there."
Last fall, the California-based National Steinbeck Center sent three artists on the road to retrace the journey that the Joads took from Oklahoma. One of them was filmmaker P.J. Palmer.
"Every type of weather you can think of we experienced in those 10 days," Palmer says. "It's not a comfy ride, and so I don't understand how they pulled it off in the 1930s. It must have been really, really crazy."
Palmer is finishing a documentary on the trip.
"We really wanted to come out and sort of take the temperature of the country again," he says. "Steinbeck did it back in the '30s, and we decided to take that trip to sort of see what things are like now."
Much has changed over the decades. The land has been restored; they didn't see any destitute families on the side of the road. But they still came across many people struggling to survive: Poverty and homelessness persist.
"We met a lot of people out of work," Palmer says. "We met people who were kind of going through their own personal Dust Bowls. If it wasn't that they were unemployed or in an environmental disaster, they still had their own personal traumas and tragedies that they were working through."
Palmer interviewed some of the people they met along the way: a single dad caring for his son with cancer; a woman who lost both parents as a child and was trying to start life again after leaving prison; migrant workers who now live in the same camps the Joads found in California.
So it's no surprise that many can still identify with The Grapes of Wrath.
"People read their own stories into it because it's really about poverty," Susan Shillinglaw says. "It's about haves and have-nots, and that story is getting increasingly urgent. ... This is a story about people losing ground with every step of the way along Route 66 — that's a story that seems, like, really very contemporary."
Filmmaker P.J. Palmer says the book is also a story of survival and resilience — a powerful plea for people to work together with a sense of shared responsibility for those who have fallen on hard times.
"The scary part is that much of what happened we're forgetting," he says. "There's a reason why the New Deal happened. You know, I do understand that the country had gone through an enormous environmental disaster. It had gone through a major Depression. Hopefully we won't have to go through that again, but we still have these huge problems with people unable to work or find a job, and people who don't have a home, and we're sort of still stripping things back politically. ... And I kind of feel like: Did you guys read the book? Did you see the movie? Do you remember what happened?"
Seventy-five years later, The Grapes of Wrath still isn't universally loved — it remains one of the most frequently banned books in this country. But it's also a powerful reminder of a past that no one really wants to see repeated.
Last #NPRGrapes Book Club MeetingThe I-Will-If-You-Will Book Club just finished reading The Grapes of Wrath. They discussed the book's legacy with Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw over on Monkey See.
So You Need A Celebrity Book. Who Ya Gonna Call? Ghostwriters
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The next time you're in a bookstore, take a look at the nonfiction shelf. See all those celebrity autobiographies — the memoirs of actors, athletes and politicians? Chances are, they're the work of a ghostwriter.
David Fisher is one of those invisible authors. He's ghostwritten over 70 books, adopting the voices of quarterback Terry Bradshaw, attorney Johnnie Cochran and actor and comedian Leslie Nielsen, among others.
How does he do it? What's it like writing someone else's memoirs? The answer, Fisher says, is down in his basement, which is filled with boxes of cassette tapes. Fisher says he has "literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds" of tapes. And they're filled with the lives of famous people: secrets about the FBI's crime lab, the pharmaceutical industry's inner workings and Hollywood's real dramas.
Fisher pulls out one of comedian George Burns' tapes: "Let's just see what he has to say." An old conversation between Burns and Fisher starts to play:
"There is only one reason why I went into show business. I fell in love with it. It's as simple as that. In fact, the more I flopped the better I loved it."
"Have you ever been terrified on the stage?"
"No! It sounds like a joke but I imagine to get nervous you gotta — you gotta have talent."
"People say, 'Boy that must have been great just sitting opposite him with a tape recorder writing down everything he says.' That's ... It's not true," Fisher says. "But it's a great compliment."
In reality, ghostwriting is a lot harder than that. Fisher studies speech patterns, sentence structures, what jokes his subjects tell. And then he has to organize all the bits of information into a coherent story.
From Dark Secret To Significant Subgenre
Not so long ago, Fisher's profession was mostly a deep, dark secret, says Madeleine Morel, a literary agent for ghostwriters.
"Say 10 years ago, ghostwriting definitely had a sort of dirty name, the same way as online dating had a dirty name," she says. "So if you were a ghostwriter you'd maybe tell your best friend on pain of death never to tell anyone else 'cause there was a slightly ignominious feature to it."
But according to Morel, those days are long gone. "In fact, it has become a very significant subgenre in publishing," she says. "I mean, publishing is absolutely dependent on ghostwriters."
She estimates that if you look at the nonfiction bestsellers list right now, at least 60 percent of the books are ghostwritten. That's because celebrities sell books, but they can't necessarily write them.
"I've had some authors that basically never even read their books," Morel says.
But if readers finish those books and didn't realize they were ghostwritten — well, that's the point. And the ghosts don't seem to mind.
Joni Rodgers, a ghostwriter from Houston, says that "being invisible is 1,000 times more exciting than being famous." Subsuming your own personality is part of the job description, she explains: "It's a total set-aside of your own ego."
These ghosts give up control and credit. What do they get in exchange? For one thing, a check: Top-tier ghostwriters can make hundreds of thousands of dollars per book, and professional ghostwriters often write several books a year.
But is all this misleading the readers?
"I suppose that's like saying, well, getting breast implants is terribly dishonest or wearing make-up is terribly dishonest," says Rodgers.
Ghostwriters have developed a delicate dynamic with readers. They try to cater to them, but they don't feel beholden. Their allegiances are with the named author.
Sometimes, 'More Merchandise Than Literature'
Dan Paisner has ghosted almost 50 books, working with people like Gilbert Gottfried and Denzel Washington.
"I've been an autistic high school student. I've been a founder of the most successful urban fashion line. I was the 17-time grand slam champion," he says — and yep, he means Serena Williams. "I was a Holocaust survivor. What else? Oh I was the co-chair of the Republican National Committee. I was the three-term Democratic mayor from New York City. I was the three-term Republican governor from New York State. I've been a lot of things."
But he readily admits he's not writing the next Moby Dick. His works often don't have a very long shelf life. He says, "Some of the books are more merchandise than literature."
And he's often racing against the clock — the celebrity's "15 minutes of fame" clock. So while he can labor over a book for two years, he can also crank one out in two weeks, writing up to 35 pages a day.
But regardless of how long it takes, Paisner has one main goal. "The endgame is to capture the tone, the voice, the essence of the subject that you are working with," he says.
He recently did a book for surfer Izzy Paskowitz. "He comes from a legendary American surfing family. So the goal there was for his book to sound like a surfer dude, you know, just sharing some stories over beers, over a camp fire," Paisner says. "And there's no room in that experience for some ghostwriter from New York breathing down the reader's neck."
Paisner started interviewing and gathering material, and then he started writing in Paskowitz's voice:
Didn't much matter to us kids if we woke up on a beach in Florida or Texas or Rhode Island or all the way down at the tip of the Baja Peninsula, or even in some motel parking lot, tucked way in the back where the street lights didn't quite reach, as long as we could surf and hang and make our little pieces of trouble.
Paskowitz says when he started working on the book, he had his doubts
"When I sat down and thought about, you know, my life story — I couldn't come up with anything," he says. "And then I came up with, I don't know, about 20 good stories. And then my stupid Blackberry broke and I lost those. So I couldn't remember anything."
A year later, Paskowitz had taught Paisner to surf. They'd bonded over beers. And finally, Paskowitz sat down to read his own book for the first time.
"It is my voice. It is my words," he says. "It is everything that I would say. And I was blown away, you know — how incredibly interesting, you know, my life was."
And his ghostwriter, Dan Paisner, says that's the point.
Last #NPRGrapes Book Club MeetingThe I-Will-If-You-Will Book Club just finished reading The Grapes of Wrath. They discussed the book's legacy with Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw over on Monkey See.
Check It Out! A Photographic Tour Of America's Public Libraries
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Robert Dawson has been photographing public libraries across the country for almost 20 years. And now, just in time for National Library Week, he has published his photos in a new book called The Public Library. It includes reflections on libraries from Dr. Seuss, Amy Tan, E.B. White and others, but the stars of the book are the photographs, from the New York Public Library — which is as splendid as any great European cathedral — to libraries that are housed in shacks and shopping malls.
Dawson tells NPR's Scott Simon about getting punched while photographing one library, and why he doesn't feel he's documenting a vanishing species.
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On the Handley Regional Library in Winchester, Va.
I have been born and raised and lived all my life in California, and so the American Civil War is something quite distant from my experience. But I'm always amazed when I travel in the East, the closeness of that period. So this was a library in Winchester that was built by a Confederate sympathizer. And then the library itself is this beautiful structure, both inside and out. But the walls inside were covered with portraits of Confederate generals, which really was sort of astonishing to me ... to see, again, the closeness of that history. Oftentimes libraries reflect what it is about the community that's unique, that's local, that is a place to maybe house civic memory, and so this was just one expression of that.
On whether he ever felt he was documenting a vanishing species
I often get that. People saying, "Oh, I'm glad you're doing that project, because [the] libraries are going away." But in fact, according to the American Library Association, libraries are more used now than ever. And libraries are one of the few noncommercial, nonreligious institutions where people can gather. Libraries are evolving, and one of the things, in some ways, that happens is they're less about books, they're more about communities.
On getting punched while photographing a library in Braddock, Pa.
I was photographing the original Carnegie Library, the very first one, and it was quite an amazing experience for me. The interior Carnegie had produced was quite magnificent; it had a swimming pool and a basketball court as well as all the books. And then I went outside to photograph the exterior. And the entire project I did with a large-format 4-by-5 camera, so I have to be under a dark cloth to focus the camera.
At one point, while I was focusing, a hand reached in and tried to grab the camera, and I pushed it away and came out from under the dark cloth and was punched very strongly in the jaw. This man had thought I had photographed him. He was obviously out of his mind — who knows what his problem was? The homeless population is something that librarians have to deal with in the libraries. It's not something they're necessarily trained to do; it's just an added thing.
On libraries to travel to this summer
If you happen to be in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle has one of the great works of art, I think. It's a Rem Koolhaas-designed library, the Central Library in Seattle. And it is stunning, inside and out.
If you're in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City has one of the great libraries. ... Chip Ward, [who] was a librarian at the time they began to design and construct this library ... really was part of the effort to bring the people's input into what the library should be. But those would be some that I would highly recommend.
There's just an infinite amount of very interesting small libraries, midsize libraries, as well, throughout the country. And they all kind of are just so interesting in terms of representing the communities and what's unique about our country.


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If Julie Andrews says
it's OK, then it must be OK.
star of 1965's "The Sound Of Music," the movie that so many people
call their all-time favorite, has given country singer Carrie Underwood her
blessing to take on the role the role of Maria in a live TV version of the
Broadway show on which the film is based.
says Carrie has all the right qualities to play Maria. And besides, it's
been forever since the movie first came out.
years later, it's time somebody had another crack at it," Julie told
Zap2It. "I had the best time of my life doing it, and it did wonderful
things for me. I think it's great that it's being done again, but doing it live
must be so daunting for Carrie."
Underwood and True Blood's Stephen Moyer, who plays Captain von Trapp, join
Steve Edwards and Maria Sansone on Good Day LA
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1.) Carrie is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol in 2005. Underwood has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist, a winner of six Grammy Awards, sixteen Billboard Music Awards, seven American Music Awards and ten Academy of Country Music Awards, among several others. As a songwriter, she has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Underwood is also a two-time winner of the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award and the first woman to win such an award twice (2009/10). Underwood was inducted into and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2008. She was also inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2009.[2]
2.) Her debut album, Some Hearts, was released in 2005. Bolstered by the huge crossover success of the singles "Before He Cheats" and "Jesus, Take the Wheel", it went on to become the fastest selling debut country album in Nielsen SoundScan history, the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history and the best-selling country album of the last 10 years. Underwood won three Grammy Awards for the album, including Best New Artist. Her second album, Carnival Ride, was released in 2007, with one of the biggest opening weeks by a female artist in history, and later earned Underwood two Grammy Awards, for the singles "Last Name" and "I Told You So". Released in 2009, her third album, Play On, was led by the success of its first single, "Cowboy Casanova", and finished the year as the second top-selling release by a female artist. 2012's Blown Away, her fourth album, was ranked the second best-selling release of the year by a female artist. She won a Grammy Award for the album's song "Blown Away". With her strong album and single sales, and $100 million in tour revenues, Underwood is the biggest American Idol earner, the highest-ranked American Idol alumni on the RIAA's Top Digital Artists of all time list and the fourth biggest album seller of the past ten years. She has sold more than 30 million singles and 16 million albums worldwide.
3.) Described by music critics as Country Music's reigning Queen, Underwood is the only solo country artist in the 2000 decade to have a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and the first and only country artist to ever debut at number one on the Hot 100, as "Inside Your Heaven" topped the chart in 2005. She is also the female country artist with the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, from 1991 to present, having 12 No. 1s and breaking her own Guinness Book record of ten. Some Hearts was named the No. 1 Country Album of the 2000 Decade by Billboard and she was the top-ranked female artist on Billboard's Best Country Artists of the 2000 Decade list.
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- Step 1 - Take a powered down iPhone 3GS and connect it to your computer running a fully up to date version of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.
- Step 2 - See Step 1.
Seriously, that really is all it takes according to security blogger Bernd Marienfeldt who reckons that the way Ubuntu Lucid Lynx handles the iPhone means that a ton of data is accessible, even if that iPhone is PIN protected and running the very latest version of the OS. How much data exactly? Well how about all your Google safe browsing databases, game content, music, photos and videos, voice recordings and so on for starters? The person gaining access in this way will leave no visible footprints to show the iPhone has been compromised, and will enjoy full read and write access during the hack.
About the only thing someone could not do is make phone calls without having your PIN number, but that's precious little comfort should your lost or stolen iPhone end up in the hands of someone with access to a Ubuntu machine.
According to Bernd "Apple could reproduce the as described serious issue and believes to understand why this can happen but cannot provide timing or further details on the release of a fix".
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Gotta Love this place – The food, service, and prices are wonderful. Thank you Superior Grill.
BEST GRILLED TUNA EVER IN THE WORLD...The plate is huge and the vegies are perfect you will love it and the butter is on the side so you can watch your wast line...
Best fajitas, great breakfast/brunch – Best salsa, freshest tasting fajitas, refried beans, huevos rancheros, black bean soup, etc. etc. Great service, too.
Worst Fajita's, SLow service, terrible experience – I have been here twice now, the first time was okay, kinda busy. The food was average, the wait staff was slow. My sister loves the place and she wanted to go saturday before the LSU game (which they won). We arrived just after the lunch rush so we figured we would be in and out pretty quick, wrong. They start out by putting 8 people at a 4' round table. This would be okay if we were only a party of 5, but not 8 especially at a Mexican restaurant. Then we each have water glasses, which is fine but after he brought out our regular glasses and refills we had over 20 glasses on the table with 2 baskets of chips and no room what so ever for our meal. So instead of taking some of the excess off he brings our lunch out. we have so little room now that we have to hold our plates. Still not getting the hint I got up and started putting glasses which were not being used onto his service tray as well as the baskets of chips. He then turned to us and said can i get you anything else. He was clueless!
Now for the meal, me and my brother both had the chicken fajitas because you can't really go wrong with that. Wrong again. They were not sizzleling at all infact the black plate they come on was luke warm if best. The vegetables were all the same color, you couldn't tell the difference between the onions and the bell peppers. The chicken had an unusual amount of fat on it, I had never had fajitas with fat on them, it was disgusting. By far the worst fajitas i have ever had, and to top it all off there was only like 4 little strips of chicken on a broken plate. There are so many other Mexican restaurants to try in Baton Rouge than to ever go back to this place. The only reason I am giving it 2 stars is because my sister loves the place. If anyone else has had a bad experience or is just looking for another place close to this area try Cozumel by the mall of cortana. The food is much better and the service is genuine.
Awesome Service – Forgive me, but being a black woman myself, I found the comment posted by JENA6 laughible. Yes, racism does exist. However, it is primarily due to people who like to USE it to benefit themselves. I have been a resident of Baton Rouge since Katrina, having lived in what is considered the not-so-good part of town. As a dedicated visitor to Superior Grill, I can honestly say I have NEVER had a problem being served because of the color of my skin. The food is wonderful and the atmosphere is up-beat and friendly. If someone has a chip on their shoulder and they expect the world to fix it, get over yourself. The world owes you nothing. Treating others with respect will send you the same reward in return. That manager was a wonderful man and will be missed dearly. Shame on you for making racism a problem wherever you go. You are obviously not from around here and I hope you never return. Keep your trouble making to yourself JENA6.
Great restaurant, too bad they let go their best manager b/c of a false accusation – You know, Superior Grill has been the best place to go for Mexican in Baton Rouge for a long time. Great food, great service--and a large part due to their manager who was recently let go b/c a group from Jena 6 made a false accusation. They were talking about this on the morning show, I think it's called Walton and Johnson. I am a minority and so is this manager, although not black. I have been dining at Superior Grill for years and have brought my white and black friends and I can honestly say that we have been treated like top customers every time we go! This manager especially is an honest hard-working man who has been there 17 years! To accuse him of being against blacks is ridiculous! They don't serve food on the patio--to anyone!! Just b/c you wanted to be served on the patio when the policy is not to serve food on the patio doesn't give you the right to call someone as being against blacks and have them lose their job of 17 years! I mean, how can you sleep at night? I'm not going back to Superior Grill b/c the owner didn't have the decency to stand up for what was right and back up his loyal employee.
Customer service – It seems that there is a difference in the customer service if you are Black so stay away. Racism still exist everywhere, so be aware if you eat at Superior Grill Restaurant in Baton Rouge you never know what goes on with your food there. If the manager can be rude and tell the waiters not to serve the Black customer at their seats but serve the White customers what is he telling them to do to your food? ........
Horrible Customer Service! – If I could give this place zero stars I would! I recently visited this restaurant with my sister. To make a long story short, the server was very rude and did not get my order right. I politely informed him that my order was wrong and he quickly snatched the plate. However, instead of bringing me a new dish he took the one he had served me to the kitchen and LITERALLY scraped off the dressings I had asked to be left off. He served me the same plate that then looked like someone had already been eating from it! Needless to say, I asked to speak to the manager who acted as if nothing was wrong with what the server had done. There was NO apology and he even told the server, "it's okay". It was not okay nor acceptable. I refused the dish and didn't order anything else from the menu. I vowed then that I would NEVER patronize this restaurant again.
yummy yummy yummy! – Food is great! Very fun atmosphere. I enjoy going here with friends on thursday nights to have happy hour. My favorite is the veggie fajitas. They are fantastic. They are always busy and service is good.
This Mexican grill and cantina features live music and feisty food guaranteed to jumpstart any fiesta. – In Short
Superior Grill offers a variety of Mexican specialties, from full-course meals of fajitas and flan to wild nights of music and margaritas. On almost any given evening, the restaurant is packed with all kinds of guests, from college students to families. At one end of the restaurant, the kitchen grills a unique combination of classic and original recipes for zesty menu catering to every taste. On the other side of the restaurant, the bar concocts any drink for every taste, including famous top-shelf margaritas.
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HARRISONBURG, Va. - James Madison football's Earl Watford and Stephon Robertson have been named Associated Press All-Americans, the news organization announced. Watford earned a spot on the first team, while Robertson was recognized on the second team.
A redshirt-senior offensive guard, Watford was the top-rated offensive lineman for the Dukes, starting all 11 games while also serving as a team captain. The AFCA All-American and Sports Network All-American as well as First Team All-CAA selection for the second consecutive season allowed just one sack on the season while, under extremely stringent linemen grading, grading out 80 percent or higher six times and 90 percent or better twice. Overall, he graded out at 85 percent for the season and had 25 knockdowns while leading an offense that ranked fourth in rushing offense in the CAA at 209.0 yards per game and 4.6 yards per rush. He blocked for Dae'Quan Scott, who ranked third in the CAA in rushing at 86.8 yards per game and earned Second Team All-CAA honors this year. Watford played in 43 games in his career, starting in 37 of them including the last 35 straight.
Robertson was previously selected as a Second Team Sports Network All-American and the Colonial Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Year over several top candidates, including reigning Buck Buchanan Award winner Matt Evans of New Hampshire, as well as earning First Team All-CAA honors. A starter in all 11 games this year and 34 played in his career, Robertson was a force for Madison's defense, which ranked second in the CAA and 24th in FCS football in scoring, first in the league and 19th nationally in rushing defense and fifth in the CAA in pass defense. Also a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award as the nation's top defensive player, Robertson finished with a team-high 101 tackles, including 48 solos, 8.5 tackles for loss, 1.0 sacks, one interception, one forced fumble and five pass breakups, earning him First Team All-CAA honors for the second straight year after being named CAA Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2010. Also a finalist for the Dudley Award as the state's top Division I player, he was third in the league and tied for 43rd in the nation with 9.18 tackles per game. He led JMU in tackles in seven of the 11 games played this year and recorded double-digit tackles in six games, five of them CAA contests.
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OSHKOSH, WI -- The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2009 Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), featuring arrival and departure procedures for the Experimental Aircraft Association's 57th annual fly-in convention July 27-August 2 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.
The NOTAM, which is in effect July 24 to Aug. 3, outlines procedures for the many types of aircraft that fly to Oshkosh for the event, as well as aircraft that land at nearby airports. It was designed by FAA, in partnership with EAA, to assist pilots in their AirVenture flight planning. While the overall procedure is similar to past years, there are some noteworthy changes compared to the 2008 version and updates on 29 of the NOTAM's 32 pages.
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A high influx of VFR arrivals is expected to begin at Oshkosh on Saturday and Sunday, July 24-25. Besides following the published arrival and departure procedures in the AirVenture NOTAM, pilots should maintain high vigilance in watching for other aircraft. Pilots are expected to have a copy of the NOTAM available for in-flight reference.
The on-line Adobe Acrobat (pdf) version of the NOTAM is available in the "Planning" section of the EAA AirVenture website at www.airventure.org. A free copy of the printed NOTAM is available by calling EAA Membership Services at (800) 564-6322 or through the EAA AirVenture website. Additional hints and tips for pilots arriving at and departing from EAA AirVenture 2009 will also be available online at www.airventure.org/atc.
This year's NOTAM cover photo illustration features FAA air traffic controllers working one of the field sites at Wittman Regional Airport. More than 50 air traffic controllers are selected to work EAA AirVenture each year.
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My names Andy am i'm an englishman living in the USA. I have worked as a younger man for my fathers construction firm but have little experience of American building methods. I wonder if you can help me
I have been removing some Ficus trees in my back yard to install an outdoor shower. Pulling out the roots took a little elbow grease but it wasn't too bad. What i did find however was that some of the roots had grown up the wall of the house and damaged the exterior wall.
After cleaning with a wire brush to remove any loose material, do i need to patch and add a finish coat or since the damage is very minimal and almost only cosmetic, can it be cleaned off and re-painted?
Also, since i am planning to add a simple outdoor shower, can i treat the wall to prevent any splashes from the shower damaging it? Or do i need to tile over the exterior surface?
Thanks for any advice,
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AndyBee, welcome to the forum.
I can't answer the technical questions but just wanted to suggest that if there are still ficus roots in the area, you can try white vinegar on them to kill them.
I've used it for weeds, not on roots, but from various garden forums I've visited over the years I've learned that vinegar can be a solution.
It depends on how thick the roots are, though, and if the ficus grew up the wall, it's probabably a pretty well established and has thick roots.
If so, you could chop the roots to open them, then pour in the vinegar.
That sure looks like it's a layer of paint that has been peeled off. If so, then it's just a matter of painting again. A thick paint may cover the edges of the old stuff.
Your outdoor shower should not bother the painted stucco wall - just think of a rainstorm. Still, if the wall is protected by an overhanging soffit and gutters from above, it would not hurt to keep as much moisture off the wall as possible. so you can tile the area of the shower - in addition to protection it will help define the shower area.
Thanks for the welcome and the help guys, I really appreciate it.
Glad to hear it's looking like simply re painting. I wasn't sure about the water proofing as the house is in Palm Springs CA so doesn't normally get much in the way of rain.
Probably should have said that at the beginning sorry.
Thanks again for your help!
Oh and good point about the tile defining the area of the shower Jaybee.
To be honest i'm going to try and hide the shower as much as possible, so not needing to add any tile is great news.
I figured it wasn't too badly damaged but its always great to get a second opinion!
Thanks again for your help.
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I hope our aryan overlords will emerge form their l secret base below antartica and wipe all of those under 500 of IQ And don't have the ability to mindtravel into the Xerces Galaxy.
"If I can make you dream when listening to this album, I believe I have done a good job"
I find the album to be somewhat of an anachronism, where it would of made much more sense 15 years ago.
By the sounds of it Varg had intended this to be a collection and reworking of older material
rather than a continual narrative.


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Where can I get this in the UK?
None of the usual places even have it mentioned.
Play.com = nothing
Amazon = Nothing
And it is not worth even bothering with the record stores.
As for 101CD.com, they do not even admit the existence of DVD-Audio.
Oh well, whatever - nevermind.
I gave this one an 8 It's great stuff..and with the bonus tracks I was tempted to go to a 9 but the old quad mix is even better.......
actually the old quad mix is awesome...
The big irony of this collection is that "Belle," the most recent of the songs, is in stereo only, they didn't even bother to fake it...meaning the earlier multis still exist but we can presume the BELLE album multis are MIA? Wow..they were honest and up front about it, but that was a surprise when it came in the mail.
But where can I BUY the thing?
Cannot find anywhere at all in the UK who have even heard of it - and nothing online yet either. I really want this disc, yet nobody wants to sell it to me in the UK.
Oh well, whatever - nevermind.
Can't help you wiht UK dealers, but amazon US has it:
Amazon UK say they cannot get it.
And having it shipped from the US is prohibitively expensive.
Oh well, whatever - nevermind.
What's it cost to ship a DVD-A to the UK these days?
Depends on the store.
Amazon wanted to charge me almost as much as the DVD-A cost. The only way to do this is to get a stack at once, and if any are damaged on arrival, I'm screwed as Amazon UK will not help out. They will not even get the title!
Total cost would have been over $40 for the disc.
Oh well, whatever - nevermind.
I managed to get a copy sent from the states.
And well worth the wait it was too - I particularly liked the fact the same engineer from the original sessions seems to have been involved with this release as well.
There is really nothing I can say about the music, apart from how wonderful this sounds in High Res - and it's a shame that one of the tracks is stereo only due to the multitracks being lost. Makes you wonder how many others have gone missing. Oh well.
The quality of this title oozes from the speakers. Pure delight.
Oh well, whatever - nevermind.
How can this sound so good and yet my player is telling me its only LPCM 48k/?. All my other DVD-A discs show PPCM either 44.1/48/88.2/96/172.4/192k. The player can't tell me the bit depth however . I thought this would mean it can't be called a full on DVD-A so this one might not technically qualify for this section but it still does sounds great. To start this disc is a pain cause its like ya gunna watch a movie and it goes through all these opening credits. This was one of the earlier DVDA's after all. Another thing is all my other DVDA's play "Title 1"' this one starts "Title 2". I can select all options in the setup menu (Ad Rez 5.1, Dolby 5.1, DTS, Ad Rez Stereo) and the Ad Rez 5.1 still sounds the best. The Ad Rez Stereo reads LPCM 2.0 48k also not PPCM. What's this Linear / Packed spec all mean?. Could Neil or somebody with a bit more analytical equipment check this out and get back to me here. Thanks.
Please equalise your ears now!
A DVD-A can be 48kHz/16-Bit or even 44.1kHz/16-Bit. My players sometimes show LPCM for a DVD-A. I think LPCM is just not compressed using MLP, it is lossless. I think either MLP or lossless uncompressed LPCM can be used on a DVD-A. Most use MLP for space requirements. I don't have this DVD-A and can't check it.
Chris G is exactly right regarding MLPCM vs LPCM.
The Al Green DVD-A is indeed 48/24 LPCM. The stereo DVD-A tracks at least, have also undergone pretty extreme dynamic range compression...just like the CD version.
This is one of those 'how the steak got to the plate' comps. Further reading:
The bottom line is not only that this DVD-A was remixed irrespective of the original Quad album, but the sound was mixed too 'modern' in nature--loud, compressed, not like the original stereo mixes Willie Mitchell made back in the day. It's *honest* 5.1, to be sure, but not faithful to its source.
Thanks guys. I never realised that a DVD-A could remain lossless without MLP and that the overall size issue could dictate whether MLP is necessary and that LPCM can suffice and remain lossless. The less interference the better I say. Good Info.
Chris, Can you check (only if you can recall easily of course) which other 5.1 DVD-A titles are done without MLP ie:LPCM and get back here. I am now gunna start checking closely this end. Thanks
Please equalise your ears now!
I have been checking the audio on all my DVD-A's and this one is still the only one I can find with LPCM 5.1 output (normally PPCM). Its an oddity thats all.
Might have been the label's decision (Hi records, Capitol/EMI or The Right Stuff)?.
Please equalise your ears now!
I have a couple of 'classical' DVD-As where the multichannel tracks are LPCM.
DVD-A resolutions in surround go from 16-44.1 to 24-96.
DVD-A resolutions in stereo go from 16-44.1 to 24-192
MLP usage is determined by 2 factors:
1 - Do I need the space reduction that MLP will give me?
2 - What is my data rate?
MLP will give - approximately - a 50% reduction from the original, depending on the mix and it's complexity. It's impossible to say as it is a VBR stream, not a CBR stream.
Also - and this is the cruncher - you have a data rate maximum of 9.6Mbits/second. 9,600 kbps is your limit.
24/96 5.1 or 24/88.2 5.1 both exceed this, so the use of MLP is mandatory for those streams. 24/96 4.1 will also - usually - exceed the data rate limitation. It's a borderline one, like 4.0 at 24/96 - sometimes some apps will allow this, other times not. When in doubt, use MLP - the output is bit-for-bit identical to the input. There is no degradation.
PPCM = Packed PCM, and is the same as MLP. Just a different acronym for the same thing.
LPCM = Linear PCM, and is what we all know of as PCM WAV or AIFF files.
Oh well, whatever - nevermind.
This Al Green dvd-a get stuck everytime I put it in my newly purchased denon dvd 3930 multiplayer. (In fact the whole machine freezes and I have to restart, before I can take the disk out). In earlier days I played it several times on my 2910 denon dvd multiplayer without any problems...... Anybody out there familiar with a simular problem? Let me know. HELP!!!!
Hi All,
Just got this recently after a long hunt. I am very glad to have it, although reading this poll makes me want to hear the original quad.
On sides of head value, I give it an 8. The surround mix has definite discreet elements, which is half the battle. I take points off for the compression that leaves the sound a little crunchy and not as clear as it probably could be. In general the fidelity is decent other than the compression artifacts, which are more noticeable on louder mix elements. Pity, because this is probably a mastering choice rather than a master tape limitation. Still, I quite like the use of surround, and am glad I have this in my collection. My girlfriend just flew through the sweet spot and with an untrained ear responded well to the music and the mix.
Head for the roundhouse...
They'll never corner you there!
Mix/Sonics.: 7
Music: 7.5


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Background Several studies have reported that HLA-DRB1 may be correlated with pemphigus vulgaris (PV), but most have been based on small samples and the results remain inconsistent and unclear.
Objectives To investigate the correlation between DRB1 and PV by a meta-analysis of case–control/nonfamily studies.
Methods PubMed, Wiley Online Library, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, Cochrane Library, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure and Wanfang databases were searched for studies including: (i) 'pemphigus'; and (ii) 'human leukocyte antigen', 'HLA', 'major histocompatibility complex', 'MHC' or 'DRB1'. Eighteen selected studies were used in meta-analyses to evaluate DRB1 alleles and phenotypes by calculating the respective odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Stratified meta-analyses and meta-regression analysis were also conducted.
Results The frequencies of three genotypes (allele and phenotype, respectively) were significantly increased in PV: DRB1*04 [P-value for comparability (Pc) < 0·00001, OR 3·61, 95% CI 2·28–5·71; Pc = 0·0002, OR 4·14, 95% CI 1·98–8·65], DRB1*08 (Pc = 0·03, OR 2·25, 95% CI 1·07–4·70; Pc = 0·0003, OR 2·46, 95% CI 1·51–4·01) and DRB1*14 (Pc < 0·00001, OR 6·47, 95% CI 4·52–9·26; Pc < 0·00001, OR 9·68, 95% CI 4·47–20·98). Three others (allele and phenotype, respectively) were significantly decreased in PV: DRB1*03 (Pc < 0·00001, OR 0·28, 95% CI 0·19–0·41; Pc = 0·0001, OR 0·25, 95% CI 0·12–0·51), DRB1*07 (Pc = 0·004, OR 0·45, 95% CI 0·26–0·78; Pc = 0·0002, OR 0·27, 95% CI 0·14–0·54) and DRB1*15 (Pc = 0·001, OR 0·35, 95% CI 0·18–0·66; Pc = 0·002, OR 0·32, 95% CI 0·16–0·65). Ethnicity partially explained the heterogeneity of DRB1*07, DRB1*08 and DRB1*14 phenotypes.
Conclusions Our findings suggest that DRB1*04, DRB1*08 and DRB1*14 are statistically significant susceptibility factors for PV. Conversely,
DRB1*03, DRB1*07 and DRB1*15 may be negatively associated with PV. Specific HLA-DRB1 types may influence the susceptibility or resistance to PV, which needs further investigations.
(Source: British Journal of Dermatology)
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I finally got around to deciding to upgrade my iPhone 3G and now iTunes only has 4.1 available and I want to keep my Cydia apps etc and jailbreak it. I downloaded a direct link file and tried to open it in iTunes but got a "no disk in drive' error. So how do I use this file?
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On March 2, 2005, the United States Supreme Court heard two cases involving public displays of the Ten Commandments. These cases, appeals from ACLU of Kentucky v. McCreary County and Van Orden v. Perry, were the first time that the Supreme Court has specifically considered displays of the Ten Commandments on public property since 1980, and the first time that the Court has ever heard oral arguments on the issue. The Court will also address the continued vitality of the much-maligned Lemon test, the frequently criticized and sometimes ignored frame work that courts generally follow when determining whether governmental conduct is permissible under the Establishment Clause. Because the Court will consider not only whether the disputed displays are constitutional, but also the appropriateness of the analysis used in answering such questions, McCreary County and Van Orden could prove to be two of the most important Establishment Clause cases of the past 30 years.
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April 25, 2014
Pizza Dough (see recipe on Christopher's Kitchen website)
Carmelized Onions
Fontina Cheese – grated
Thinly sliced prosciutto ham
Arrugula salad topping
Salt & Pepper to taste
Olive Oil
Have ready:
Prepare pizza dough. Freeze unused portion. Roll out dough into oval shape and dust with flour. Prepare grill. Place pizza dough on grill – turning same side at 45 degree angle to create nice grill marks. You should only need to cook on one side. Cook pizza dough on grill until crisp – do not overgrill.
Top cooked pizza dough with layer of carmelized onions and grated fontina cheese. Place on cookie sheet and broil in oven until cheese is melted and bubbly.
Take out of broiler and top flatbread with thinly sliced prosciutto ham. You may want to cut flatbread into slices and then top with Arrugula salad mixture, a little black pepper and glaze with Olive Oil.
Serve as an appetizer or light lunch entrée!