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What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Responseby Bernard Lewis
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For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first in the battlefield and the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life. In this intriguing volume, Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed--how they had been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West. Lewis provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. He shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry and military tactics, commerce and industry, government and diplomacy, education and culture. Lewis highlights the striking differences between the Western and Middle Eastern cultures from the 18th to the 20th centuries through thought-provoking comparisons of such things as Christianity and Islam, music and the arts, the position of women, secularism and the civil society, the clock and the calendar. Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis is one of the West's foremost authorities on Islamic history and culture. In this striking volume, he offers an incisive look at the historical relationship between the Middle East and Europe.
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Chapter One
The Lessons of the Battlefield
The Treaty of Carlowitz has a special importance in the history of the Ottoman Empire, and even, more broadly, in the history of the Islamic world, as the first peace signed by a defeated Ottoman Empire with victorious Christian adversaries.
In a global perspective, this was not entirely new. There had been previous defeats of Islam by Christendom; the loss of Spain and Portugal, the rise of Russia, the growing European presence in South and Southeast Asia. But few observers at that time, Muslim or Western, could command a global perspective. In the perspective of the Muslim heartlands in the Middle East, these events were remote and peripheral, barely affecting the balance of power between the Islamic and Christian worlds in the long struggle that had been going on between them since the advent of Islam in the seventh century and the irruption of the Muslim armies from Arabia into the then Christian lands of Syria, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, and, for a while, Southern Europe. The Crusaders had briefly halted the triumphal march of Islam, but they had been held, defeated, and ejected. The Muslim advance had continued with the extinction of Byzantium and the Ottoman entry into Europe. The Empire of Constantinople had fallen; the Holy Roman Empire was next. Ottoman and more broadly Muslim consciousness of the world in which they lived is reflected in the very copious historical literature that they produced and, in greater detail, in the millions of documents preserved in the Ottoman archives, illustrating thefunctioning of the Ottoman state year by year, almost day by day, in its manifold activities. There are occasional references to the loss of Spain, but it appears as a relatively minor issuefar away, not threatening. There is some mention of the arrival of Muslim refugees and of Jewish refugees who came from Spain to the Ottoman lands, but little more.
The peace signed at Carlowitz drove home two lessons. The first was military, defeat by superior force. The second lesson, more complex, was diplomatic, and was learnt in the process of negotiation. In the early centuries of Ottoman experience, a treaty was a simple matter. The Ottoman government dictated its terms, and the defeated enemy accepted them. After the first siege of Vienna there was, for a while, some sort of negotiation, and evena startling innovationa concession to the kaiser of equal status with the sultan, but no conclusive result one way or the other. In negotiating the Treaty of Carlowitz, the Ottomans had, for the first time, to resort to that strange art we call diplomacy, by which they tried, through political means, to modify, or even to reduce the results of the military outcome. For the Ottoman officials this was a new task, one in which they had no experience: how to negotiate the best terms they could after a military defeat.
In this, they had some assistance, some guidance, from two foreign embassies in Istanbul, those of Britain and of the Netherlands. The Ottomans at first were unwilling to accept what they regarded as Christian interference, but they soon learned to recognize and make use of such help. The Western maritime and commercial states had no interest in the consolidation and extension of Austrian power and influence in Central and Eastern Europe, and thought it would be more to their advantage to have a weakened but surviving Ottoman Empire, in which their merchants could come and go at will. The British and Dutch emissaries managed to provide the Ottomans with some discreet help and advice, and were even able to take part in the negotiation of the peace treaty.
Western help was not limited to diplomacy. Military helpthe supply of weapons, even the financing of purchases, were old and familiar, going back beyond the beginnings of the Ottoman state to the time of the Crusades. What was new was for the Ottomans to seek European help in training and equipping their forces, and to form alliances with European powers against other European powers.
In the first half of the eighteenth century, the struggle was indecisive, and even brought some gains for the Ottomans. In 1710 and 1711 they won a significant victory over the Russians who, by the Treaty of the Pruth (1711), were obliged to return the peninsula of Azov. But another war against Venice and then against Austria ended with another defeat and further territorial losses, specified in the Treaty of Passarowitz of 1718.
At about that time, we have an Ottoman document, recording, or to be more accurate purporting to record, a conversation between two officers, one a Christian, (not more precisely described), the other an Ottoman Muslim. The purpose of the document is obviously propagandistic. It is, to my knowledge, the first Muslim document in which Muslim and Christian methods of warfare are compared, to the advantage of the latter, and the previously unthinkable suggestion is advanced that the true believers should follow the infidels in military organization and the conduct of warfare. The document laid great stress in particular on the Christian use of firepower, both cannon and muskets, and on the training and reorganizations of their forces, to make the most effective use of both. "The superior skill of the Austrian lies only in the use of the musket. They cannot face the sword." The thrust of the argument was that it was no longer sufficient, as in the past, to adopt Western weapons. It was also necessary to adopt Western training, structures, and tactics for their effective use.
That was bad enough; even worse was that this adoption by the Ottomansand later the Persians and other Muslim armiesdid not produce the desired result. The military confrontation revealed in a dramatic form the root cause of the new imbalance. The problem was not, as was once argued, one of decline. The Ottoman state and armed forces were as effective as they had ever been, in traditional terms. In this as in much else, it was European invention and experiment that changed the balance of power between the two sides.
The course of modernization even in this limited sense was by no means easy. It was denounced, it was resisted, it was interrupted. The case for modernization was considerably weakened by one of the many wars between Turkey and Iran that ended in 1730 with a victory for the even less modernized Persians. This did not strengthen the case of the modernizers in Turkey.
For a while things went rather better in Europe. The growing rivalry between their two main enemies in the north, Austria and Russia, helped the Ottomans to recover some ground. But then a new disaster struck. Between 1768 and 1774 the Ottomans suffered a series of defeats at the hands of the Russians. The result was registered in the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774, which gave the Russians rights of navigation and indirectly of intervention within the Ottoman Empire. Of more immediate importance was the clause concerning the Crimea, previously an Ottoman dependency inhabited by Turkish-speaking Muslims. The sultan was now compelled to recognize the "independence" of the khans of the Crimea. As it soon became clear, this was a preliminary to the annexation of the Crimea by Russia, in 1783.
This was a bitter blow. The loss of Ottoman territories in Europe was hard but could be borne. These lands were relatively recent conquests, with predominantly Christian native populations, ruled by a minority of Ottoman soldiers and administrators. The Crimea was another matter; it was old Turkish Muslim territory dating back to the Middle Ages, and its loss was felt as part of the homeland. This was the firstbut by no means the lastloss of Muslim lands and populations to Christian rule. It also marked the conclusive establishment of Russia as a major Black Sea power, posing a threat to the Ottoman and more broadly the Islamic lands, both on the European and the Caucasian shores.
Clearly, new measures were needed to meet these new threats, and some of them violated accepted Islamic norms. The leaders of the ulema, the doctors of the Holy Law, were therefore asked, and agreed, to authorize two basic changes. The first was to accept infidel teachers and give them Muslim pupils, an innovation of staggering magnitude in a civilization that for more than a millennium had been accustomed to despise the outer infidels and barbarians as having nothing of any value to contribute, except perhaps themselves as raw material for incorporation in the domains of Islam and conversion to the faith of Islam.
The second change was to accept infidel allies in their wars against other infidels. The Ottomans were used to employing locally recruited Christian auxiliaries in their wars, and even contingents, whom they could treat as auxiliaries, from Christian powers with which they shared a common Christian enemy. The Ottoman records show that in addition to those of their Balkan subjects who embraced Islam, there were some who remained Christian and nevertheless served in auxiliary units attached to the Ottoman forces.
There were even gestures toward sovereign Christian states, who helped as what we would nowadays call allies, though neither side would have used such a term at the time. For example, in the correspondence between the Sultan of Turkey and Queen Elizabeth of England at the end of the sixteenth century, the letters are mostly concerned with commerce, but they do occasionally refer to the common Spanish enemy, a shared concern of London and Istanbul at the time. It would be an exaggeration to call this an alliance, and it was certainly not on equal terms. In the documents, the sultan, addressing the queen, uses language indicating that he expects her to be: "... loyal and firm-footed in the path of vassalage and obedience ... and to manifest loyalty and subservience" to the Ottoman throne. The contemporary translation into Italian, which served as the medium of communication between Turks and Englishmen, simply renders this as sincera amicizia. This kind of diplomatic mistranslation was for centuries the norm.
But the new relationship between the Ottoman state and its European friends as well as its European enemies was something quite different. By now it was clear that something was going wrong, and more and more people in the governing elite, and even outside the governing elite, were becoming aware of it. Even worse, they were beginning to be aware that Europe was doing better and that they were consequently weaker and more endangered.
When things go wrong in a society, in a way and to a degree that can no longer be denied or concealed, there are various questions that one can ask. A common one, particularly in continental Europe yesterday and in the Middle East today, is: "Who did this to us?" The answer to a question thus formulated is usually to place the blame on external or domestic scapegoatsforeigners abroad or minorities at home. The Ottomans, faced with the major crisis in their history, asked a different question: "What did we do wrong?" The debate on these two questions began in Turkey immediately after the signing of the Treaty of Carlowitz; it resumed with a new urgency after Küçük Kaynarca. In a sense it is still going on today.
Debates about what is wrong were not new. There was a long tradition of Ottoman memorialists, most of them members of the official bureaucracy, discussing the various domestic problems of the Ottoman state and society, suggesting causes, and proposing remedies. One such was a little book written by Lûtfi Pasha, grand vizier of Süleyman the Magnificent, after his dismissal from office in 1541. In it he offered some acute diagnoses of flaws in the Ottoman structure and remedies that he thought should be adopted. Another was by a civil servant of Balkan origin called Koçu Bey, who in 1630 drew attention to weaknesses in both the civilian and the military services of the state, and proposed reforms to deal with them. The basic fault, according to most of these memoranda, was falling away from the good old ways, Islamic and Ottoman; the basic remedy was a return to them. This diagnosis and prescription still command wide acceptance in the Middle East.
But these memoranda were relatively calm in tone and primarily domestic in content. They do occasionally refer to the outside world. Lûtfi Pasha, for example, drew attention to the importance of sea power. The Ottomans, he says, are everywhere triumphant on the land, but the infidels are superior at sea, and this could be dangerous. He was right of course in this. It was European ships, built to weather the Atlantic gales, that enabled the west Europeans to overcome local resistance and establish naval supremacy in the Arabian and Indian Seas. By the eighteenth century, even Muslim pilgrims going from India and Indonesia to the holy cities in Arabia would often book passage on English, Dutch, and Portuguese ships, because it was quicker, cheaper, and safer.
But the rise of Europe was marginal to the concerns of Lûtfi Pasha and the other early memorialists, primarily concerned with domestic and, in the main, administrative and financial matters. The new memoranda, after Carlowitz, are more specific, more practical, more urgent, and more explicitly military. Also, for the first time, they make comparisons between the Islamic Ottoman Empire and its Christian enemies to the advantage of the latter. In other words, the question now was not only "what are we doing wrong?" but also "what are they doing right?" And of course, the essential question: "How do we catch up with them, and resume our rightful primacy?"
An important factor in the development of these new perceptions and in the literature in which they are expressed was travelthe reports and recommendations of travelers between the two worlds of Islam and Christendom. There had always been Western travelers in the East. They came as pilgrims visiting the Christian holy places; as merchants profiting, by permission of the Sultans, from the rich Eastern trade; as diplomats, serving in the embassies and consulates established by the European powers in Muslim capitals and provincial cities. There were also captives taken on the battlefield or at sea. Some of these Western visitors entered the service of Muslim governments. In the Western perspective they were adventurers and renegades; for the Muslims they were muhtadi, those who have found and followed the true path.
The eighteenth century brought an entirely new category of Western visitors, whom we might describe in modern parlance as "experts." Some came as individuals to offer their services to Ottoman employers. Later, some were even seconded by their governments, as part of an increasingly popular type of arrangement between a Christian or post-Christian country on the one hand and the Ottoman or some other Muslim state on the other. Such arrangements continue to the present day. For Muslims, first in Turkey and later elsewhere, this brought a shocking new ideathat one might learn from the previously despised infidel.
An even more shocking innovation was travel from East to West. Previously only captives and a very limited number of special diplomatic envoys had gone that way. Muslims had no holy places in Europe to visit as pilgrims, as Christians visited the Holy Land. There was not much to attract merchants in a Europe that, for many centuries, was still a relatively primitive place with little to offer. The most valued commodity brought from Europe to the East was slaves, and these were usually supplied by Muslim raiders or European merchants.
Muslims were no strangers to travel. The pilgrimage to Mecca was one of the five basic obligations of the faith, and required Muslims, at least once in a lifetime, to make the necessary journey however long it might be. Muslims also traveled extensively in the countries to the south and to the east of the realms of Islam, in search of merchandise or knowledge. The lands and peoples beyond the northwestern frontier of Islam had little to offer of either, and such travel was in fact actively discouraged by the doctors of the Holy Law. Western captives in the East who escaped or were ransomed and returned home produced a considerable literature telling of their adventures, of the lands they had seen and the people they had met in the mysterious Orient. Middle Eastern captives in the West who found their way home for the most part remained silent, nor was there any great interest in the few accounts that survived. The Occident remained even more mysterious than the Orient, and it aroused no equivalent curiosity. The different mutual perceptions were vividly expressed in their attitudes to each other's languages. The study of Eastern languages was intensively pursued in the European universities and elsewhere by scholars who came to be known as Orientalists, on the analogy of Hellenists and Latinists. Until a comparatively recent date, there were no Occidentalists in the Orient.
The European powers had long followed the practice of maintaining permanent resident embassies and consulates, in the Islamic lands as elsewhere. The Islamic governments did not. It was the normal practice of Muslim sovereigns to send an ambassador to a foreign ruler when there was something to say, and to bring him home when he had said it. This eminently sensible and economical practice was maintained for centuries. Until the eighteenth century, there were very few such missions, and very few indications survive of what they reported.
In the eighteenth century the situation changed dramatically. Great numbers of such special envoys were now sent, with instructions to observe and to learn and, more particularly, to report on anything that might be useful to the Muslim state in coping with its difficulties and confronting its enemies. Several of the Ottoman ambassadors wrote reports, which clearly had a considerable impact at the time. Among them were Mehmet Efendi who went to Paris in 1721; Resmi Efendi who went to Vienna in 1757 and to Berlin in 1773; Vasif Efendi who was in Madrid from 1787 to 1789; Azmi Efendi who was in Berlin from 1790 to 1792 and wrote an interesting memorandum on how a well-ordered state is governed and administered; and in many ways most important of all, Ebu Bekir Ratib Efendi, who was in Vienna from 1791 to 1792 and described the system of civil and military government in the Austrian Empire in great detail, with specific recommendations concerning those practices that might usefully be copied.
The mission of Ratib Efendi differs from those of his predecessors both in quantity and in quality. The staff who accompanied him to Vienna consisted of more than one hundred military and civil officials; he stayed in Vienna for 153 days; his report ran to 245 manuscript folios, ten times or more than ten times those of his predecessors, and it goes into immense detail, primarily on military matters, but also, to quite a considerable extent, on civil affairs. Ratib Efendi also took the trouble to provide himself with much needed help on the language side. In his report he mentions two people who had been particularly helpful to him. One was the son of "the Jewish financier Camondo," one of the small group of Ottoman sephardic Jews who were living in Austria; the other was the famous Mouradgea d'Ohsson, an Ottoman Armenian who had long served as translator to the Swedish embassy in Istanbul. In his retirement he had gone to live in Paris, but because of the Revolution had moved to Vienna. These two provided much more than simple translation. Ratib Efendi, in his report, tells of Mouradgea d'Ohsson's visits and long conversations with him, and notes that the Armenian's zeal for the Ottoman state was at least as great as his own.
The recourse to Vienna was less surprising than it might at first appear. Events in France were bringing an important change. For almost three centuries, the Ottoman sultans had seen the Hapsburgs as their main enemies, and had looked to France and to a lesser extent to England for help against them. But the revolution in France created a new situation. The new sultan, Selim III (reigned 1789-1807), was clearly reluctant to drop the French connection, but the events in Paris obliged him to explore other possibilitieseven the traditional enemy.
As well as embassy reports, there were also military memoranda. One of the earliest pieces of evidence, mentioned above, records an imaginary conversation between an Ottoman officer and a Christian officer, comparing their armies to the great disadvantage of the Ottomans. The purpose clearly was to prepare the Ottoman governing elite for drastic changes. This was bad enough in itself. That the changes should take the form of following Western practice was even more shocking. A major role in this process was played by European experts. Some of these came as individuals and threw in their lot completely with the Ottomans, to the point of embracing Islam and entering the Ottoman service. One such was a French nobleman, Claude-Alexandre, Comte de Bonneval, who arrived in about 1729, reorganized the bombardier force, and founded a "mathematical school" for the armed forces in 1734. He converted to Islamallegedly to escape extradition on certain charges pending against him at homeand died in 1747. He is known in Turkish annals as Bombardier Ahmed (Humbaraci Ahmed).
Another famous convert was a Hungarian seminarist, probably Unitarian, known in Turkish annals as Ibrahim Müteferrika. Ibrahim's original family name is unknown; Müteferrika is a title, indicating membership of a kind of elite guard corps attached to the sultan's person. He seems to have arrived in the late seventeenth century and died in 1745. His major achievement was to establish a Turkish printing press in 1729. One of the books he printed was a short treatise of his own, in which he explains the successes of Christian arms against the Ottomans in Europe and urges the need to reform Ottoman administrative and military procedures along European lines.
As well as converts to Islam, there were a number of refugees who came from Europe, bringing useful skills. These included Christians whose beliefs were deemed heretical or schismatic in their countries of origin, and of course Jews. For a while in the late fifteenth and more especially in the sixteenth centuries, Jewish refugees from Europe played a minor but not unimportant role in Ottoman societybringing European economic, technical, and medical skills, and occasionally serving in diplomatic missions. But with the cessation of Jewish immigration from Europe this virtually came to an end. Those who came from Europe had brought useful skills and knowledge; their locally-born descendants lacked these advantages, and their role was correspondingly diminished.
Of vastly greater importance were the Greeks. In the early years of Ottoman rule in the former Byzantine lands there was great bitterness among the orthodox Greeks at their treatment by the Catholic West, and the patriarch of Constantinople was famously quoted as saying: "Rather the turban of the Turk than the tiara of the Pope." But attitudes changed, and from the late seventeenth century it became customary for wealthy Greek families in the Turkish lands to send their sons to Europe, usually to Italy, for education. They particularly favored medical studies but also began to play an influential role as translators for the Ottoman government.
The office of interpreter to the Ottoman authorities was of course important in dealings with Europe. In earlier times it was held mostly by renegades and adventurers from the countries bordering the Ottoman Empire; Germans, Hungarians, Italians, and others. Later it was monopolized by Greek subjects of the Ottoman state who held the office and title of Grand Dragoman. The role of the Grand Dragoman Alexander Mavrokordato in the negotiation of the Treaty of Carlowitz was an important but by no means exceptional example. At this time, when the Ottomans sent an ambassador abroad he was invariably accompanied by a dragoman who was almost invariably Greek.
Excerpted from What Went Wrong? by Bernard Lewis. Copyright © 2002 by Bernard Lewis. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Meet the Author
Bernard Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University. A highly eminent authority on Middle Eastern history, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, The Muslim Discovery of Europe and The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years.
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- May 31, 1916
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- London, England
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- B.A., University of London, 1936; Diplome des Etudes Semitiques, University of Paris, 1937; Ph.D., University of London,
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This masterful work explores Islamic Civilization¿s failure to respond to the challenge presented from the fifteenth century onward by an innovating West. It does this in an elegant clear prose that at every point brings insight into this complex confrontation of civilizations. Its sweeping understanding of creative effort in a variety of cultural realms makes the work especially rewarding to the reader. Lewis writes out of a great respect and understanding of the Islamic Civilization and its achievements. He tells what is in a way a kind of exemplary cautionary tale of what can happen to a Civilization that closes in upon itself, and rests upon its laurels. A Civilization that can see no farther than its own centrality loses its way in failing to understand the dynamic Civilization developing along side it. Living as we do in a time when the clash of civilizations has been revived. (The `clash of civilizations ` is a phrase originally coined by Lewis, and later most gainfully employed by Samuel Huntington) the tale gives much pause for thought.. Could the West now be as Europe ages and declines, and as the United States stands alone in facing totalitarian challenges be in for a surprise, if not from Islamic Civilization then from the Sinic Civilization which now seems so remarkably coming alive?
Overall, I thought this was a pretty good book. The only thing I was disappointed with was the fact that Mr. Lewis did not tie in how problems created in the past lead into the situation of the present. This book is certainly worth reading.
This brief book is a re-worked collection of essays by an accomplished scholar of Islam, Turkey and Arabia. Bernard Lewis explores several aspects of the reasons for the eclipse of Islam and the Arabic empire by Western Europeans in the 16th through 20th century. It is not an exhaustive history but a snapshot of some cultural themes. He explores the military changes, cultural influences, scientific issues such as the marking of time and measurement, and the response of the Islamic societies to the European challenge. It was written before the Sept 11 attacks, but has a great deal of relevance to understanding some of the resentment at their origin. Written in an engaging and scholarly style.
Professor Lewis did a fantastic job. This book is an outstanding primer for anyone interested in Middle Eastern and Islam studies within an historical framework as they relate to the West.
I have a different take on this book than the reviewers below. As an American who lives overseas in an African country where Muslims comprise a significant segment of the population, I found book to be overly deferential to the various Islamic regimes it discusses. Believe me, in Africa, many ¿ maybe most -- Muslim leaders have been and continue to be aggressive and intolerant of those with whom they disagree. Many of the leaders want to impose sharia law, which is bad enough if you¿re Muslim, but it¿s really bad if you¿re Christian, and in Nigeria where the country is about half and half Christian/Muslim the leaders of several Nigerian states have imposed sharia law. When the Nigerian Supreme Court recently declared this unconstitutional, the political leaders of these states said they¿d ignore the Court! Lewis minimizes the brutality that has characterized much (though not all) of the history of the Islamic world, highlights the failings of the West, and minimizes the contributions of the Europe and the U.S. to humanizing the governments of the non-Western world. He bends over backwards to avoid offending supporters of the Islamic world. That one of the reviewers below thinks this book is too hard on Islam just demonstrates the rigidity of a prevalent type of Islamic thinking that takes offence at the slightest criticism. (I notice he thinks it¿s a good thing that France criminalizes certain forms of academic speech ¿ just like a lot of Muslim regimes. And contrary to what the reviewer below says, Lewis goes out of his way in this book to make a distinction between modernization and Westernization in the Islamic world.) If you want to learn more about the development of Islam, Lewis¿s book will provide you a brief and well written intro, but be forewarned that it significantly understates the pitiful human rights record of Islamic regimes both ancient and modern.
He may or he may not, but it seems very safe to say that he knows a lot more than a certain 'Duke Professor'. The shortcomings of 'What Went Wrong', many of which were lucidly exposed by Hannan, are alarming. They are alarming and considerable grounds for concern as they have Bernard Lewis as their source. For many, like Mr. Anders of Duke, accept without question his rendition of the facts and the conclusions he ultimately draws. Sadly, books like these do little to bridge cultural gaps; it may not be too wide of the mark to say such books widen them.
Mr. Hannan, I guess you know more about history then a Princeton professor. Armenian allegations, just like the West's attitude towards Islam is based mainly on propaganda. Somehow Armenians claim 1.5 million Armenians died when less than that many people lived in the country. IN addition, it totally ignores the hundreds of thousands killed by Armenians. Lewis presents a lot of facts about these events, liek it or not. In addition, does it make sense that suddenly Ottomans killed many Armenians after centuries of granting them many liberties? The fault of the many muslim and armenians dead lies in bad Armenian leaders and their Allied provacators.
This newest lecture about Islam, its tenets, and Prof Lewis' assessment of western prospects for reopening dialogue is a spellbinder. President Bush says the American war against terrorism isn't a war against Islamism. Were he to read Prof. Lewis' What Went Wrong, he may conclude that Islamism isn't leaving him many options. While the prognosis is not bright, this is an enormously thoughtful introduction and explanation. The book deserves wide readership. I have bought a dozen copies!
This is an authoritative and accessible account from the only true living authority on the Middle East, Professor Bernard Lewis. Probably one of his greatest works and stands as a labour of love after decades in pursuit of knowledge about the Middle East and Islam. Suddently, Bin Laden, Sept. 11, Saddam Hussein, Israel-Palestine, minority rights, all make sense with this timely and timeless addition to our understanding of the dynamics behind the terrifying and dizzying headlines today.
I am appalled by the amount of factual errors that Lewis includes in his book. If he's really not familiar with the reality of these facts, it's a big disaster. And if he is, it's of course a bigger disaster. Throughout his writings in general, Lewis always blames Muslims for not following great Western values. What an arrogant argument. Who said that values that work for the West will work for the Muslim world? Who said that Western values are 'great' anyways? Who said the West has true democracy and freedom of speech? I don't think this is an argument that can really be made, especially in light of what happened to personal freedoms after 9/11. In What Went Wrong, Lewis arrogantly tells us that to the extent that the Western culture had a chance to impact Islamic societies, it managed to free them from their demons. He illustrates this by telling us that slavery was finally abolished in the Islamic World in 1962 after they could not face the Western world with it anymore. This is a major factual error. Dr. Lewis, it would really surprise me if you did not know that Islam abolished slavery when it was introduced to Arabia in 632 A.D., hundreds of years before slavery was abolished in the United States. This is one reason why Islam is more popular among African Americans. The Quran (the Muslim Holy book) is filled with verses that stress that all people are equal, and the only thing that makes a human 'better' than another is the amount of good or virtue he/she does in his/her life. There was never any slavery in Islam. The Prophet (peace be upon him) and the early Muslims used to struggle to save money, so they can buy slaves and free them (and this is actually one example of the correct use of the word jihad, which is misused all over Western media). Actually at one point in his life, the Prophet married a woman slave that he bought and freed. Islam has actually called the pre-Islamic (and pre-Christian and pre-Jewish) days 'jahiliya' which means 'days of ignorance' because of the wide spread of slavery and worshipping stones, which Islam put an end to. So this is a huge factual error. If you run a simple search on the Internet for 'Islam AND slavery' for example, or if you read books by someone like Karen Armestrong, you will find literally thousands of Webpages and pieces of evidence that confirm my point. I'm really puzzled when 'prominent' scholars publish books about Islam or Arabs or the Middle East with such huge factual errors (and I've only mentioned one example for lack of space). I think they only serve to deepen the misunderstandings and increase the gap between the Muslim world and the West.
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So it looks as if the BN is heading for a comfortable victory in both parliamentary seats, judging by the congratulatory tweets issued by the likes of KJ.
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Steyn's Song of the Week
Morningtown Ride
The grueling schedule of my sellout Aussie tour kept my nose mostly to the grindstone, but I did get a couple of hours off on the Victoria leg and so treated myself to a matinée of Georgy Girl: The Seekers Musical at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne.
That's where the Seekers started in folk clubs and coffee houses over half-a-century back, of course, and the hometown crowd loved the show. The creators don't make the mistake of many jukebox musicals of over-complicating things, and it's a very winning cast. If it comes out more as "The Judith Durham Story" than "The Seekers Story", perhaps that's the nature of the beast: even among the chaps' roles, her late husband and a straying English boyfriend are in dramatic terms the male leads while Athol, Keith and Bruce seem at times to be relegated to the supporting cast. The dancing is excellent, which seems an odd thing to say about a Seekers musical, and parts of the Second Act are tragic and moving if a little undernourished in the set-up.
But I have two modest quibbles. The songs divide into two categories - "book songs", intended to advance the plot, and "performance songs": here we are at Abbey Road recording a single, etc. "Georgy Girl" falls into both camps: It's "performed" campily at the Oscars in the style of Mitzi Gaynor and her dancing boys (the Seekers were unable to attend, due to a tour date in Britain) and then emerges for the Act One finale as a "book song" in which Judith Durham is taken on a shopping expedition down Carnaby Street in order that she might "shed those dowdy feathers and fly - a little bit". So we don't really hear it in familiar Seekers-style until the very end of the show as a kind of encore. (By the way, the cast don't pucker up for the intro, which would tend to support the view of SteynOnline readers that that's non-anthropogenic whistling on the record.) But I'm not sure that's really the best way to get the full bang for the buck from the title song.
Another Seekers smash winds up with very perfunctory treatment. Judith is in hospital with appendicitis, and the lads gather round her bedside to sing:
When Hal Prince revived Show Boat in the Nineties, I complained that he'd turned "Why Do I Love You?", a grown-up love song, into a children's song, for Elaine Stritch to sing to a newborn babe. "Morningtown Ride" is a children's song that certainly resonates for grown-ups, especially in the Seekers' wonderfully rich vocal blend - but not if it's a partial rendition, cut off by the narrator cynically remarking that the bedside scene never happened. It seems a terrible waste of one of the most evocative of their hits. Ever since writing about "Georgy Girl" a fortnight back, I've been in a Seekerish vibe, and the one I've been warbling in the shower from Perth to Brisbane to Cloncurry and Mount Isa has been "Morningtown Ride", a child's lullaby that, at least for me, seems to take on deeper shades as the years roll by.
They first recorded it in 1964 for the grimly titled Hide & Seekers LP, with Bobby Richards' orchestra, and then two years on re-made it, with Tom Springfield producing. It hit Number Two in Britain - or one place higher than "Georgy Girl" got a couple of months later.
By then the song was almost a decade old. It was written in 1957 by Malvina Reynolds. When first her name caught my eye on a record sleeve many years ago, I assumed she was vaguely Hispanic - the Argentines like to call the Falkland Islands las Islas Malvinas, which President Obama, pandering to his Latin hosts a couple of years back, rendered as "the Maldives" (close enough). But Malvinas is an Hispanicization of the French name ĂŽles Malouines, so called because the first Frenchman to stumble on them, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, had set sail from St-Malo in Brittany. "Malvina" as a name turns out to be Gaelic - from mala mhinn, meaning "smooth brow", which the Scots poet James Macpherson turned into a girl's name in the 18th century. Napoleon was a big fan of Macpherson's poetry, so the name became popular in Scandinavia, because Napoleon was a godfather to several children of King Carl XIV Johan of Sweden and King Carl III Johan of Norway - they're the same guy, but they had different numerals in each realm, as indeed I recall CJAD's Tommy Schnurmacher once suggesting Queen Elizabeth ought to have in Canada...
I seem to have wandered rather far afield here. Where was I? Oh, yeah... When I first saw the name Malvina, I thought it was very mellifluous and thus a perfect name for a maker of music. And then I discovered that Malvina Reynolds's best known work was one of the most repulsive songs of the 1960s (which is a very competitive title). One day Mrs Reynolds and her husband were driving from their home in San Francisco to La Honda, where she was booked to sing for the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Motoring through Daly City, California, she was so aghast at the suburban tract housing that she pulled over, got her hubby to take the wheel, and en route to the Committee meeting wrote:
And then she moved on to the people inside the little boxes:
The lyric is one giant condescending sneer at so-called suburban conformity. Tom Lehrer, a far more gifted social observer, called it "the most sanctimonious song ever written". If you go to those post-war sub-divisions now, the little boxes are individualized with dormers and porches and bay windows and a spare room above the garage. If Malvina Reynolds wanted to see little people living little lives in little boxes, she should have seen the totalitarian housing the Communists warehoused their citizens in throughout the Warsaw Pact: two-room flats, seriously little boxes, and all identical.
But the tune was child-like, and the composer's pal Pete Seeger succeeded in passing it off as a kind of kiddie song, and for a while the word "ticky-tacky" entered the vernacular - with the result that this preening, snobbish horror remains Malvina Reynolds' best known song in the United States.
She was born Malvina Milder in San Francisco in 1900, the daughter of socialist immigrant non-observant Jews. There are all kinds of little boxes: unlike many red-diaper babies, she came out the same, and stayed the same. By the age of ten she was contributing poems to The International Socialist Review:
That's certainly a precocious effort for a ten-year old, albeit not quite on message for Bernie 2016: These days socialists no longer demand that "everyone must work" and that "those who shirk" should "get nothing". Au contraire.
"Our little Comrade" went to Berkeley, married a labor organizer and never strayed too far from the Bay Area. The Grade Five socialist apparently gave no thought to setting her injunctions against shirkers to music until, well into middle-age, she went to a Pete Seeger gig:
It wasn't all paeans to the tireless working man. In 1977, a year before her death, Malvina Reynolds told an interviewer that once in a while she had something she wanted to say to children:
And so, in 1957, she wrote:
It's just a terrific song idea: The notion of sleep as a railway journey all through the night until you arrive in Morningtown.
In Mrs Reynolds' conception, the children are running the show:
The first major recording was by the Limelighters in 1962. If you've seen A Mighty Wind, you'll be familiar with the "Folksmen". They conjure at least in part the Limelighters, a now obscure folk group who nevertheless in 1962 made the first significant recording of "Morningtown Ride" - but with a two-thirds cast change:
Seymour? Where'd that come from? The Performer's Guide to Lyric Changes by Seymour Sales? Two years later, for the Seekers' first outing to Morningtown, the verse had been - wisely, in my opinion - universalized:
"Sandman" is a kind of pun. He's the traditional bringer of sleep and dreams (as in "Mr Sandman"), but, if you know your locomotives, you'll be aware that trains come equipped with a sandbox, to spray sand on the tracks in rainy weather to assist traction. On this ride, I'd rather have a sandman than John or Seymour. It's comforting:
[UPDATE: Many Aussie readers seem genuinely to think it's about Mornington, a Victorian seaside town. For example, John Walters:
That's a coincidence. It's no more about Mornington, Oz than it is about Mornington Crescent (of BBC "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" fame). It's an American song by a California writer who never set foot in Australia. "Morningtown" is an idea: the land of the new day after a long journey through the night.]
Shortly after the Seekers' hit single, there was a spirited recording made by Stan Butcher, His Birds and Brass. The LP cover featured a representative of both the brass and the birds, although it's the bird that registers. On "Morningtown Ride", the brass cheep out the first phrase very perkily, and Stan's birds respond with "Dup-dup-dur-dur-dup". You only have to play the opening bars and two generations of British children will instantly recognize it as the theme to the BBC's "Junior Choice" with Ed Stewart. Stewpot died last month, after playing "Morningtown Ride" one last time on the special Christmas edition of "Junior Choice". (If you'd like to hear Stan, His Birds and Brass once more for old times' sake, Anneka Rice hosted a tribute to Ed on Radio 2 a couple of weeks back.)
For seasonal telly Down Under, the Seekers occasionally offer a Christmas version - a rather awkward mash-up of nocturnal mythology that makes Morningtown less special. Malvina Reynolds recorded the song herself in 1970, but she was not a distinguished performer even of her own work. Brahms' Lullaby is more interesting musically but Mrs Reynolds has the edge lyrically: This lullaby doesn't simply instruct you to go to sleep, but presents it as a great night-long adventure. The tune is good enough, a bit of a round-trip train journey in itself, climbing up the hill to "...sleepy noise" in the first four bars and then back down to "girls and boys" at the station in the second four bars. But it's Judith Durham's golden voice and Athol, Bruce and Keith's harmonies that seem to conjure within that one word "Morningtown" a whole world of anticipated magic. Had the song been written by, say, Irving Berlin, Morningtown would have been just around the corner rather than "many miles away". And somehow the track lengthens across the horizon as the song goes on:
Professor Charles Smith of Western Kentucky University observed:
As Johnny Mercer, who knew a thing or two about this territory, wrote a few years after "Morningtown Ride":
It's so easy to ride to Morningtown when you're seven years old, and it gets harder and harder as the decades roll by. In Australia the other day, I mentioned in response to the Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's too kind words about me that these days I trudge up to greet the sandman increasingly burdened by the gloom of our times. At a certain point, we'd all love to be spirited along the bay to wake in Morningtown. But the past, and childhood particularly, is another country:
Are we too late? Is that the lonesome whistle down the track? As Shakespeare almost said: To sleep, perchance to steam...
February 29, 2016
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The Steyn Oz tour moves on. We had a great time in Parliament House today, where the Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, gave me a far better introduction than I deserve. I'll be in Sydney on Tuesday. As I said last week, we always like to have a few Aussie Songs of the Week on my forays Down Under, and I'm not sure "Georgy Girl", written by two Englishmen, quite qualifies. But this one does: Ten years ago, I found myself sitting in a taxi in George Street in Sydney behind another cab bearing a big ...
Georgy Girl
Hey there, Georgy Girl Swingin' down the street so fancy free... We always like to have an Australian Song of the Week to kick off my tours Down Under, but this one isn't strictly speaking an Aussie song, in the sense that its composer and lyricist are English. On the other hand, it's indelibly associated with the biggest pop group ever to come out of the Lucky Country – and it provides the the title for the brand new biotuner about them that's enjoying its world premiere at Her Majesty's ...
Ain't Misbehavin'
A hit song by the great nephew of Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar
Down Under
Happy Australia Day to all our readers Down Under. It's actually Tuesday, which is tomorrow, but tomorrow here is probably already yesterday there, so I may be too late. I'm looking forward to seeing many of those antipodean readers next month on my Aussie tour, which kicks off on Valentine's Day in Perth. Half the dates are already sold out, so, if you haven't booked your seats yet, don't leave it too late. Details of towns, times and tickets can be found via the IPA here. We always like to ...
The Man Who Sold The World
I've received a remarkable number of emails in the last week more or less taunting me to eschew my usual Jerome Kern and Cole Porter and pick a David Bowie number for our Song of the Week. Well, I like a challenge, and, given that the British press has been full of people with not a thing to say about Bowie saying it at great length, I figured that I might as well get a piece of the action. That said, it would be hard to beat this last word in Bowie-eulogizing from The Croydon Advertiser:
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Mark remembers Natalie Cole, an unforgettable song, and an unshuttupable songwriter
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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
A Christmas song rewritten for Sinatra
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban launch the clash of civilizations
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
A happy 75th birthday to the most famous reindeer of all
All I Want For Christmas Is You
Mark hits a new high as he takes a crack at Mariah Carey's Christmas classic
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
Frank Sinatra called himself a "saloon singer," because that's where he used to sing, way back when, in Jersey juke joints and roadhouses....
Put Your Dreams Away
Our 99th Sinatra Century song is, after "My Way", the second most performed Sinatra song written by a Canadian...
That's Life
A big hit, but a tense moment in the studio
Body And Soul
Two takes separated by four decades
Mack the Knife
The last crowd-pleaser of a six-decade career
You'd Be So Easy to Love
...but not so easy to sing
Pick Yourself Up
The sexy polka that made a presidential inaugural speech
Time After Time
A timeless ballad from a Sinatra stalwart
The Lady Is A Tramp
April 14th 1937: a major expansion of the American songbook
Goody Goody
Frank sings a classic Johnny Mercer revenge song
Try A Little Tenderness
Via Frank and a couple of Londoners, a black American soul classic
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Frank and Nancy sing Sonny and Cher
Theme from New York, New York
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This free-standing Mural Mask Standee features a harlequin pattern in silver and black with purple feature accents. The Mural Mask Standee may be placed on the floor or hung for a more dramatic effect. Each standee is made of cardboard and measures 2 1/4 feet high x 6 feet wide. Easy assembly.
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Jordin Sparks to greet shoppers at Boston Store at Southridge
"American Idol" champion. Grammy-nominated singer. Actress. Jordin Sparks also lists fragrance creator on her resume. Not bad considering she's only 22.
Sparks will make an appearance at Boston Store Southridge from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 30 to help promote said fragrance, the aptly named Ambition. The first 300 guests who purchase the Jordin Sparks special gift package will be able to meet her and have their bottle autographed. The package costs $59. »Read Full Article
Tracy Morgan gets big laughs - and some unexpected exposure at the Pabst
Controversial comic and "30 Rock" star Tracy Morgan was a wild man performing stand-up at the Pabst Theater Sunday night. That's to be expected.
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WTMJ-AM, WTMJ-TV, WLUM win top station honors
WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), WTMJ-AM (620) and WLUM-FM (102.1) won station-of-the-year honors at the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Awards Saturday night in Madison.
WTMJ-TV won for TV station of the year, while WTMJ-AM won for news and talk radio station of the year. WLUM won for music station of the year. All won in the large-market category. »Read Full Article(8)
Soulstice Theatre delivers shimmering 'Memory of Water'
Coming from north by northwest, take I-794 to Howard Ave. Make two quick lefts and you've arrived at the St. Francis-based digs of Soulstice Theatre, home to a tiny, gutsy troupe which - when the stars align, as they often do - offers a night out that can rival much of what's available downtown, at half the price.
The constellation appearing on the Soulstice stage right now - in a production of Shelagh Stephenson's "The Memory of Water," under David Ferrie's direction - is definitely worth the trip. »Read Full Article
Next Act's 'Irma Vep' haunted by earlier version
In the second act of Charles Ludlam's madcap "The Mystery of Irma Vep," now on stage at Next Act Theatre, a frightened Lady Enid (a cross-dressed John McGivern) turns to housekeeper Jane Twisden (a cross-dressed Norman Moses) and pines for the protective presence of Nicodemus, her faithful manservant.
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Atlanta archbishop: Mansion likely to be sold
SMYRNA, Ga. -- After strong objections from local Roman Catholics, Archbishop Wilton Gregory said in an interview Wednesday that he believes the church will probably sell a $2.2 million mansion built for his own use.
The top-ranking churchman in Atlanta said he will decide what to do with the Tudor-style mansion in Atlanta's toniest neighborhood after consulting with several church councils. Under church rules, the archbishop alone has the authority to sell the nearly 6,400-square-foot home.
Still, Gregory said he wants advice from others in his diocese before making the final call. The prelate said he has not discussed the controversy with his church superiors. He sent documents describing the decision to buy and build the property, including his public letter of apology, to the pope's ambassador in Washington.
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Pasta with Black Pepper and Parmesan
This recipe, courtesy of chef Cesare Casella of Beppe restaurant in New York City, combines just a few simple ingredients for a surprising degree of flavor.
- Servings: 4
Source: Martha Stewart Living, December 2002
- 1 pound durum or all-purpose flour
- 3 large eggs
- 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- Fine sea salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1/2 cup water
- Semolina flour, for dusting
- 8 cups Homemade Chicken Stock Homemade Chicken Stock, or low-sodium canned
- 1 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Prepare the pasta: Mound durum flour on a clean work surface. Make a well in the center. Crack eggs into the well. Add 2 tablespoons oil and a pinch each of salt and pepper. With a fork, whisk the eggs, slowly incorporating the flour. Slowly drizzle the water, one tablespoon at a time, into the egg mixture. When the dough holds together, begin kneading the dough to work in the remainder of the flour. Continue to knead until the dough is smooth, about 10 minutes. Form into a ball, and wrap in plastic. Transfer to the refrigerator and chill for 30 minutes.
Dust a baking sheet with semolina; set aside. Remove the chilled dough from the refrigerator. Divide dough into 8 pieces. Roll each piece into a rope, about 1/2 inch thick. Using a sharp knife, slice the dough crosswise into slices 1/16 inch thick. Using your thumb, press the slices into coinlike pieces. They should be slightly larger than a quarter. Transfer to prepared baking sheet; set aside for 30 minutes to dry.
In a large saucepan, bring chicken stock to a boil. Add the reserved pasta, and cook until al dente, 5 to 6 minutes. Drain; reserving stock. In a large saute pan, heat remaining 4 tablespoons olive oil over medium heat. Add the pasta and 1 1/2 teaspoons pepper. Add 1 1/2 cups reserved stock. Bring to a boil, stirring gently to combine. Reduce the heat to medium low, and let simmer for 3 minutes. Add 1/2 cup of the cheese and parsley; stir to combine. Let simmer for 2 minutes more. Remove from heat, and ladle into bowls. Sprinkle with the remaining 1/2 cup cheese. Serve immediately.


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Robots can perform surgery inside your eyeballs
posted by Larra Morris
Doctors at Oxford University made medical history recently by successfully completing the first robot-assisted intraocular surgery. Robert MacLaren, Professor of Ophthalmology at the university, and his team managed to gently peel off a 1/1000th millimeter membrane from the inside of a patient's eye. To do so, the team relied on a cutting-edge medical device known as the Robotic Retinal Dissection Device, or R2D2.
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"Anger Release Machine": a coin-op for shattering fine breakables
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In 2008, the Swiss/Danish design team Yarisal & Kublitz created their "Anger Release Machine," a vending machine stocked with "crystal glasses, plates, porcelain, various items" (the catalog helpfully adds "70 x 77 x 182 cm") -- insert coin, shatter breakables, feel better.
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Ford tech lets drivers drink from their air conditioners
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When a car's air conditioner is running, water vapor in the air accumulates on its condenser, changing into a liquid state and then dripping to the ground. Doug Martin, a powertrain controls engineer at Ford, didn't like the idea of all that water being wasted. That's why he created a prototype system which collects that condensation, and repurposes it as drinking water within the car.
Martin was initially inspired by a billboard in Peru, that captures humidity in the air and renders it into drinking water. Working with colleague John Rollinger, he proceeded to build the On-the-Go H2O system, in which air conditioner condensation is collected, filtered, and then pumped into a faucet in the car's console.
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Selfies can calculate the monetary value of conservation, study finds
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You can put a price on people's access to nature, and for states, it's a pretty good deal. A new study uses selfies taken on conserved lands, like state parks, to calculate more precise visitor rates than parks services typically record, finding that nature preserves provide a pretty good boost to the tourist economy, as Popular Science reports.
A study led by the University of Vermont's Laura Sonter (who's taking the selfie in the image above) examined geo-tagged photos uploaded to Flickr, and compared them to maps of conserved lands in Vermont created by the Nature Conservancy. Using photos from 2007 to 2014, the researchers counted the number of people each day who uploaded at least one photo from the specified areas. The research is published in PLOS ONE.
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Google street view blurs cow's face in Cambridge
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A cow which had its face blurred by Google street view has proved a hit on social media.
The animal was snapped by Google's cameras at Coe Fen, Cambridge, and seemingly given the same treatment humans receive for privacy reasons.
via BBC News
Researchers produce healthy mice without using fertilized eggs
posted by Larra Morris
A mammal needs fertilized egg cells to have children, right? Not so fast. University of Bath scientists report that they're the first to successfully breed healthy mice without any fertilized eggs, instead relying on inactive embryos. The team first doused eggs in strontium chloride, which prevents them from going into a state of arrest while they're turned into embryos -- previous attempts to fool the eggs saw them die within a few days. Researchers then inserted sperm nuclei that reprogrammed the embryos, readying them for the wombs of their surrogate mothers.
via Engadget
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LED "clock" spells out the time in words
posted by Larra Morris
If you're a longtime reader, you'll know that I love me some impractical timepieces; the LED Word Clock qualifies, with a set of stencil-text cutouts of words that are selectively lit by LEDs to tell you the time(ish); it measures 8" square and costs $74 and the major complaint from reviewers is that it is too bright, which strikes me as a feature, not a bug.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Zone Hotel Rome
Excellant hotel some way from centre which is easily accesable via the metro (station 5 mins away) or free shuttle bus(hourly)no resturant but staff recommended a stunning resturant only 5 min walk away.
Inexpensive, clean & quiet but in the burbs
A cousin living in Rome booked the hotel for us and we would definitely go back so that says it all. It was like a north american mid range business hotel and far out but the price couldn't be beat (100 euros a night with breakfast for 2)and was so quiet we slept like babies. Next time we would rent a scooter for the whole time to do the back and forth into town even though there is a free shuttle. Loved all the diversions in the city but was happy to get a good nights sleep.
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A very nice clean modern hotel with nice cheerful and helpful staff.
The mini-bus service, every hour to the Centre of Rome, was extremely helpful. I would, in future, return to the Zone.
Misleading info
I stayed at this hotel for 4 nights while in Rome. Generally, the hotel was fine. Modern, clean, spacious rooms. However, we were a little disappointed with our stay. The hotel website is misleading. The hotel is 2km from the Vatican, not the centre of the city. Walking took about 25mins, but it was not a flat walk. If you plan to walk around Rome all day, then you probably don't want to walk to the city as well. There is a shuttle bus that goes hourly into Rome, but it is only an 8 seater.
Once full, it seemed to leave, so first in best dressed (don't get caught out). The bus drops off at Piazza Cavour, and picks up too, however the last pick up is 7.30pm going back to the hotel. The local transport is okay, but is still abit of a walk from the hotel. There is a bus, and overland train within about 10min walk, and the metro (line B) is probably 25 min walk. Found the bus the best bet. If you want to be close to the action in Rome, this hotel is not for you.
The staff were friendly. However, we had a problem using the hotel internet. They charge 3 euros for half an hour. It is very slow- we sent 2 emails from a yahoo account in half an hour. When we complained we were told it was a problem with the internet and not their computer.
Too many people using the internet at one time (it was 10.30pm at night)However, it is not broadband, and is running off an external model. Think that had more to do wih it. Definatley a rip off, and despite complaining, they weren't interested and still charged us for the internet.
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... 8211; even if he had travelled 12,000 nautical miles to get there!! He made a recce of St Peter's Square, took umpteen pictures of the square and the queue, then negotiated with "John" (who said that he was from Pakistan – looked more like Abdul) and found that, for a few dollars there was a "jump the queue" facility leaving at 1515. We were into it!!
All we had to do was be (lackadaisically) processed by ...
Papa Francesco
... by the gal who was helping us and we probably would not have chosen it on our own. It had gorgonzola cheese, mozzarella and ham. Wood fired crust and it was delicious. We loved it. We want to try something similar when we get back. So good and we were not finished. We also decided to share an order of Carbonara. Oh my, oh my, oh my. It was phenomenal. By far the best we had ever had and the best we had on our trip. The pancetta was crunchy, the egg was creamy, ...
Walk around Rome
... walking the city...started by finding my hostel for when I have an additional 40 lbs of luggage. I then was going to walk back to the spanish steps. I ran into many unique sights, expensive hotels, and nice shopping. But the spanish steps I did not find - I found St. Paul's Square and a big city park. I then walked the ...
When in Rome....
... had just staggered to the finishing post of a marathon. I would have liked to see the Colosseum but having seen a few spectacular amphitheatres in Turkey I opted for the Sistine Chapel and the Trevi Fountain. Really liked the idea of throwing my coin in to the water to make sure I would return. Apparently if you chuck two in, you will come back married, three and you will return divorced. Thought I would stick with the one coin. Less messy. Could ...
The wedding and the day after.
... slow cooking meat in a pot, always changing as realizations and circumstances concoct with each other in the cauldron of our limited time. I wish Eugenio and Ann much love, happiness and joy for the rest of their lives and pray they have a life together filled with dreams come true.
We had gelato for dessert and I slept that night in Tinks and Supi's room on their spare bed.
I've been six hours now on a train heading south-west to ...


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At the time Canada was part of the Empire. So it was the British.
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The people living there were so far removed from Britain, that despite being loyal subjects to the queen, they still considered themselves to be Canadian since they had such little contact with Britain, whose own attitude was largely '**** off, Canada. Figure it out.'
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was definatly crazy canadians dude, its from the top of my frontier hat lol


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While Kyrgyzstan's newly elected parliament has convened its first session, there is still no ruling coalition and the situation in the country remains unpredictable. Carnegie's Martha Brill Olcott and Alexey Malashenko were joined by Daniel Kimmage from the Homeland Security Policy Institute to discuss the current security situation in Kyrgyzstan and its implications for the region.
Commenting on the current developments in the south of the country following interethnic violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in June, Kimmage suggested thinking of the situation as a redistribution of economic power and a struggle over assets, as opposed to a purely ethnic conflict.
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Hey Taymere,
Bought 50 of the 13Jan25 calls @ 3.85 average...par 28.85. Could not pass up the free money. Look at how all the way back to July they are priced the same.
I just want to know who the heck Daniel is?
Is he the alter ego of Jim, or...
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Thanks Doc and Daniel, It's nice for us all to help each other think, I'd get bored with trading fast if not for the interaction here on yahoo.
Ditto on those sentiments.
Thanks for the tip Taymere...I look to smart people, like you, to make up for the deficits in my non-financial background ;-)
Excellent timing Doc, the elites of Germany and Greece appear to be winning the struggle to keep their masses compliant and away from their Drachmas and Marks. TWO had been price for the high threat of a new PIG credit crisis lately and a tiny bit of good eurozone news really sent it rallying today.
Wow , let me know if you see 9.90(BV). That was almost hit for a flash moment on Apr 12th...B4 that Jan 25th.
I'll be glad to back up the truck for that!!
Yeah I haven't bought yet either. 10.30 is a little too high at this time, div is far away.
Around 10 would give me a 1 year RSI under 30, so I'll be keeping a very close eye on TWO.
Hi Doc and Olee, I haven't added any more TWO yet but it's got my attention and I've got my down-riggers out trolling with lowball GTC buy orders in a figure eight pattern over the sweet spot. I am hoping that Dexia floods the market with sub' MBS as they have threatened to, hopefully that would give me an entry point very close to BV.
Just picked up a few thousand for 10.30. Have been looking for an entrance. This beat recent EX div low by 10 cents. Will get more on weakness....How about you Taymere? The options are too expensive IMO.
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