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35 Years of Forced Hijab: The Widespread and Systematic Violation of Women's Rights in Iran
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Date:March 2014
Iran is the first country where all women are forced by law to observe hijab laws. Without espousing a clear definition of hijab, Islamic Republic laws consider women who lack "Islamic veil" in "public" as committing a crime punishable by imprisonment and fines. Based on Sharia laws, Islamic hijab implies covering hair and the entire body except for wrists and hands. However, a failure to observe hijab as determined by security or other official forces involve many other instances. For instance, certain choices of clothing colour, the tightness of outfits and even boots have been deemed as violations. However, these are not the only criteria, and the standards have varied from time to time. In fact, most forms of fashion that are in season are considered violations of Islamic hijab and are banned.
Findings of this report point to the fact that the harassment and abuse of women who may not observe hijab is not limited to warnings by street patrol officers. In reality, many are forced to face arrest and prosecution for violating hijab laws and consequently face limitations and deprivations in relation to their careers, education, public services and participation in cultural or recreational spaces. When examined in their totality, violations of the civil rights of women at the hands of state authorities and justified in the name of a lack of or improper hijab, subjects those women who oppose hijab to the most severe and extensive forms of harassment.
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Truex takes 500 pole; Martin second
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4:06 p.m.
That's what the offseason has been for the Sprint Cup Series. That's what the front row of the Daytona 500 that was set Sunday afternoon symbolized.
Martin Truex Jr. will start on the pole for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, the result of a merger between Dale Earnhardt Inc. and Chip Ganasssi Racing with Felix Sabates.
Starting beside him will be Mark Martin, his DEI teammate a year ago who moved into the No. 5 car at Hendrick Motorsports.
The front row, the only spots locked in for next Sunday's Great American Race, is like a microcosm of the turnover that has occurred during a tumultuous offseason that has seen organizations disappear and more than 750 employees laid off.
The only thing that could have been better was if Bill Elliott and the legendary Wood Brothers had made it. Elliott was the fastest in both of Saturday's practice sessions but qualified only fifth for a team that will run only 12 races in 2009.
He's still guaranteed a spot in the 500 as the fastest of those not inside the top 35 in owner's points from last season.
But it wasn't the lap he and many were hoping for.
Even Martin was secretly pulling for him.
"It would be real cool," he said, echoing the thoughts of others on a chamber of commerce day at Daytona International Speedway.
Truex and Martin were bubbling like kids over their lap times.
After an offseason that has seen EGR release more than 150 employees, lose Paul Menard and Bobby Labonte to Yates Racing and its president of global operations to run NASCAR's diversity program, it was good for Truex to give those who remained something to smile about.
"It's good to see the hard work pay off finally," Truex said. "They've been through a lot this winter. This is the third year in a row we've had to move shops during the winter. It doesn't sound like a lot, but to move everything and start over, that's a big deal to the guys.
"For them to do that and merge with another team and start working with a lot of new people, for both sides to fit together as well as they have, it's gone very well."
But, Truex reminded, "It's just one lap. I don't want to get too carried away here."
Martin was carried away.
"I can't wait to start running in race trim," he said. "We had to sit and watch all the Bud Shootout practice and watch that race. We're going to make up for some lost time this week when we get into race trim."
3:06 p.m.
Think pink.
That obviously is what it takes to be fast. Chip Ganaasi and Felix Sabates, co-owners of Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, were wearing pink shirts as they marched up and down pit road.
More than halfway through qualifying, they had three of the six fastest cars. Martin Truex Jr. was first, Juan Pablo Montoya fourth and Aric Almirola sixth.
"They're beautiful, that's for sure," Truex said with a smile.
2:25 p.m.
Jeff Gordon insisted he wasn't angry when he stopped Jamie McMurray in the garage late Saturday night to discuss the last two laps of the Shootout.
Gordon started on the outside of McMurray on the green-white-checkered finish, but he didn't get the push he wanted from eventual winner Kevin Harvick and fell back.
What concerned Gordon was the way McMurray attempted to block Harvick.
"I felt like there was some pretty aggressive driving," Gordon said. "I thought Jamie did a great job. I wasn't displeased. He was just a little too aggressive when it came to blocking."
2:19 p.m.
Mark Martin is as happy as he's been in his life, but he was miserable Saturday night having to watch the Budweiser Shootout for the first time since 1988.
"I was here for the practice," he said after his first qualifying lap for Hendrick Motorsports. "It was really brutal for me to be here and watch and not be a part of it."
NASCAR changed the rules a few weeks ago to get three-time Shootout champion Tony Stewart into the field. Should there have been a Martin Rule as well?
"It was just different," Martin said. "There were more cars than we've seen in the Shootout before. It's an exaggeration, but I felt like I was the only one that wasn't in it. Most of our competition was in it, and with no testing, it was an even bigger advantage.
"I probably would have been in a wreck like everybody else, so the race would have been one thing, but the practice would have been huge."
2:08 p.m.
Chip Ganassi approached Juan Pablo Montoya after a qualifying lap that had him temporarily on the outside pole.
"Did you lift?" Ganassi asked.
Montoya snarled, as he often does.
"To be honest, I actually was disappointed with the lap," he said.
He shouldn't have been. Montoya was 43rd-fastest in Saturday's practice with a best lap of 184.528 mph. His qualifying lap was 187.483 mph.
"We had it [all along]," noted Montoya, reminding that Earnhardt Ganassi teammate Martin Truex Jr. was second-fastest in practice and Aric Almirola ninth.
And, for the record, he didn't lift.
1 p.m.
So, Bobby Labonte, how does it feel to have "Peel me" on the back of your Ask.com firesuit?
"It's better than 'Kick me,'" the 2000 Sprint Cup champion said as he walked down pit road.
Good point.
12:52 p.m.
I'll go ahead and say it before a driver or crew chief does: Sunday qualifying for the Daytona 500 is an absolute waste of time. Give the teams an extra day of practice or the day off entirely and make this one of NASCAR's cost-saving plans.
It's ridiculous to spend four hours to fill the top two spots. The track can't make much money -- if any -- from the few thousand fans who show on a Sunday afternoon, even a sun-splashed one like this. The drivers don't learn much valuable information for Thursday's two qualifying races because the setups will be completely different.
The only team this might benefit is Wood Brothers, which is not guaranteed a spot in the Daytona 500 next Sunday. Bill Elliott led both practice runs in the famed No. 21 on Saturday, and he'd love to go into Thursday without the pressure of having to make the field.
Nobody else outside the top 35 realistically has a shot at the pole, so this is useless.
The most exciting thing about last year's qualifying was when movie star Ashley Judd, the wife of Dario Franchitti, violated NASCAR's policy of no dresses on pit road.
Still waiting on a clarification from NASCAR on whether leggings worn under a short skirt are within the rules. No names, but there were at least two potential violations on pit road during Saturday night's Budweiser Shootout.
At least it's warm, with temperatures hovering in the mid-70s. The wool coat I arrived in Daytona wearing four days ago is packed away, although it came in handy for two nights as the heat in the rental house failed with temperatures hovering in the upper 20s.
Settle in. This will be a long day.David Newton covers NASCAR for ESPN.com. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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From the 2014 season, drivers will be limited to 100kg of fuel consumption during races – around 50kg less than the figure currently used. And, as the sport prepares to make the transition, Whiting emphasised the significance of the rule changes.
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Does seeing this make you feel safe?
Me personally, if I see someone walking around with guns like this it makes me very uncomfortable. I don't see why this is necessary in an every day situation. Why carry these shopping or out to eat?
I've heard it said that we should feel safer having people that are armed like this walking around but in my mind, they are terrorizing innocent people and I don't feel the least bit safe.
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by Silver Member on May. 6, 2014 at 6:07 PM
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It makes me uncomfortable as well.
by Ruby Member on May. 6, 2014 at 6:08 PM
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Well, it sure isn't my city.
Here, the criminals walk around like that while all the law-abiding citizens have to lock up the guns at home.
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It doesn't bother me. It's just a gun. And their not using it inappropriately. I wish I could carry my gun with me everywhere.
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In my town, its pretty normal for men to have gun racks on their trucks lol, but to just carry them around would make me uncomfortable.
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Kevin Kozmanoff has seemingly seen his best days in baseball pass him by, but he's doing all he can this spring to earn a spot on the Texas Rangers' roster and things are falling to place pretty nicely for him.
He hasn't played a full season since 2010 when he was with the Oakland A's, and hasn't played a big-league game since 2011 when he split the year between Oakland and Colorado and didn't even play half the season.
But he's just 32 years old, he's proven in the past he can hit for power and most importantly, he might fill some needs on the Rangers' roster heading into the 2014 season.
In 45 plate appearances for the Rangers this spring, Kouzmanoff is making the Rnagers' minor-league deal with him look like a potential steal as he's hitting .385 with three doubles, a homer and eight RBIs. Defensively, he's pretty much exclusively a third baseman, but could play first as well. Adrian Beltre's troublesome quad, and Mitch Moreland's oblique have opened up the need for depth at both corner infield spots and Kouzmanoff might have himself a big-league job again.
"Kevin Kouzmanoff has shown me exactly what I thought Kevin Kouzmanoff could show me," Rangers manager Ron Washington told reporters earlier this week. "He's a baseball player.
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The figure of Christopher Hitchens was so overdetermined, by himself and others, in life and in death, that he has taken on the status of a fictional character, or maybe a comic-book personality. He is … the Tendentionator! Can he really produce an otherworldly volume of contrarian writings? Yes! Is he indeed possessed of superhuman talent for pissing people off? Yes! Is he, despite the bullying righteousness in every entertaining sentence he writes, as often wrong as right? Again, yes!
The views themselves are such that no complete set of them could be rationally held by anyone besides the man himself. By my lights, he was right about religion but wrong – disastrously, stupidly wrong – about the invasion of Iraq. (Editor Graydon Carter, introducing this book, twice uses the word "curious" to describe Hitchens's ill-considered lurch to the pro-war right, an adjective the subject would have scorned as feeble.) It is no particular distinction of my range of acquaintance to say that I know people who would reverse that polarity. The same could be said of his excoriations of Mother Teresa and Bill Clinton – though not, it seems to me, of his graceful appreciations of literary heroes such as P.G. Wodehouse, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis, which remain among the best things he wrote in a cancer-shortened life of avid scribbling.
On public stages, he had no equal in recent memory, even if he was not quite "the greatest orator of our time," as Richard Dawkins once said. More apt is good pal Martin Amis's suggestion that he was, on the analogy of the grandmaster-busting chess program Deep Blue, an unbeatable wall of rhetorical force: Deep Speech. To take just the Toronto appearances in his final days, I was lucky to be among those who saw Hitchens trounce former British prime minister Tony Blair in a debate without breaking a sweat – even while conspicuously ill – just as, earlier, he had gleefully driven sensitive persons from the hall of a Royal Ontario Museum lecture by denouncing the shameful Catholic record of priests molesting children.
Hitchens's wit and acuity never deserted him, nor did sentimentality or remorse visit, during what was invariably described as his "battle" with cancer. This short book, drawn from his Vanity Fair columns of the period before his death in December, 2011, makes it clear that he distrusted the trite martial metaphor, just as he reserved amused skepticism for the insistent optimism, euphemism, unsolicited advice and multifarious healing regimes that populate the territory between what he calls, with typical Hitch-y irony, Wellville and Tumortown.
"The new land is quite welcoming in its way," he muses of the latter region. "Everybody smiles encouragingly and there appears to be absolutely no racism. A generally egalitarian spirit prevails, and those who run the place obviously got where they are on merit and hard work. As against that, the humor is a touch feeble and repetitive, there seems to be almost no talk of sex, and the cuisine is the worst of any destination I have ever visited."
The book offers a wry running meditation on the existential fact of being, not merely having, a body. Hitchens notes that he carried off two public appearances the very day he learned he had esophageal cancer, "though I did vomit two times, with an extraordinary combination of accuracy, neatness, violence and profusion, just before each show." He considers the elusive nature of pain ("discomfort" or "distress" in the language of Tumortown) as well as the banal but unforgettable detail that chemotherapy deprives one of nose hair, inducing the infantile indignity of a constantly running nose.
In other business, there is a brisk logical dismantling of those who would, and would not, pray for Hitchens in his dying days, a poignant meditation on losing one's voice and a somewhat jejune assessment of the cliché, usually attributed to Nietzsche, that whatever does not kill me makes me stronger. (Hint: It's not true.) The tone falls somewhere between the prickly intellectualism of Julian Barnes's Nothing to Be Frightened Of and the sad, funny pathos of David Rakoff in the final section of his last book, Half Empty, two superior efforts on the topics of mortality and cancer, respectively.
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What moms- and dads-to-be may not realize is that similar, equally weighty debates are going on in the homes of their parents, about what the future grandparents want their grandchildren to call them. "This generation of grandparents takes the whole naming process more seriously than ever," notes Lin Wellford, coauthor of the forthcoming The New Grandparents Name Book: A Lighthearted Guide to Picking the Perfect Grandparent Name (ArtStone). After all, she asks, "How many times in your life do you get to name yourself?"
New grandparents today are also younger than ever — according to the U.S. Census, first-time grandparents are, on average, 47 — and many don't want names that make them feel old. "I wanted a name that sounded as young as I feel," says Wellford, 57, of Ozark, Ark. She's known as Mimi to her two grandchildren.
Grandma or Gaba?
Certainly, some choose an old standby like Grandma or Grandpa, Papa or Nana. Others take a name from their cultural heritage. And others, when their children ask, agree to let kids call them whatever their own parents were called. On the other hand, "You can choose a name and lobby for it, but there's no guarantee that you're going to end up with it," Wellford says. "I've heard more stories where the grandchild comes up with a name that may be a mangled, funny version of what he or she hears — nothing that the grandparent would have ever thought of in a million years — but they fall in love with it and that's that."
That's how Deana Barr, 65, of North Fort Myers, Fla., came to be Gabadoo to her four grandsons. "When my grandson, Aaron, was younger he had trouble saying Grandma and he pronounced it Gaba," she says. "One day we were cuddling and I asked him, 'Who loves you?' and he answered, 'Gaba do!' So I became Gabadoo or just Gaba. I love it because it's different and it sets me apart."
Similarly, when Anita Bryce's first grandchild, Megan, was little, she sometimes got confused between her two Grannies. The girl's mother tried to simplify things. One Christmas, as Megan opened her gifts, she was told, "This gift is from your grandma with the curly hair," says Bryce, 58, now a grandmother of seven in Vernon, Fla. "It was probably because I had Dolly Parton hair at that time." Sure enough, she says, "a couple of hours later I walked into the house and was greeted with a big hug and salutation of Curly Grandma!
"Believe me, I had reservations about that name," she says. "But seven grandkids later, listening to the kids pronounce Curly Grandma throughout their toddler years has been a hoot! I have been Curly Grandma, Turdy Drama, CrrGrr, DumDum, and Telly Dama. Eventually they all get to Curly Grandma, but the couple of years it takes to master that name is absolutely fun!"
Barbara Winter's first grandchild came up with an innovative solution for distinguishing between her two grandmothers. "When she turned two, I moved to Las Vegas to be closer to her," says Winter, now 66 and a grandmother of two. "Never in my wildest dreams did I, a longtime Midwesterner, think I'd be called Grandma Vegas. But I am and I love it. My granddaughter's other grandmother is known as Grandma Texas, so we're kind of a built-in geography lesson."
Breaking the Mold
Many families have naming traditions for grandparents. If precedence dictates that you be "Grandma Kate," but that just doesn't work for you, speak up and offer other suggestions. Some grandparents merge their name and title — Anne becoming Anniegram, for example, or Marilyn becoming Gramarilyn. Kids may also discover innovative ways to adapt your name. At first, "My grandkids didn't know what to call me," says Kitty Chimbel, a grandmother of five in Torrington, Conn. Her first grandkids started calling her Nanny, but that quickly evolved into Nanny Meow, because of her name. She still goes by the name today.
When Harry Rosen's first grandson arrived in November, the 57-year-old dentist in Pittsford, N.Y., declared that he wanted to be known as Grand Dude. "It's a little different and distinctive and it has a touch of silliness," Rosen says. But he concedes that it's entirely possible that grandchildren being who they are, his plan could backfire and he'll become known as Grand Dud. "I can live with that," he says. "They can call me anything they want — as long as they call me!"
My grandson picked my "grandma" name when he was first talking. He raised those little chubby arms toward me and said "Maga"!!!!! It's been Maga ever since (that's prounounced) Maga - SOFT SOUND ON BOTH "a's" -- That little boy is now 16 and got me a personalized license plate that says
When my 7 year old grandson was 2 he refused to say grandma, memaw mawmaw, granny, mimi. We were all pawpaw. I decided if I had to be pawpaw I was going to know when he was talking to me so I became Pawpaw Carol.
I started out as 'buela, then went to buelee, then to dolly, now its Gram. All of my grand kids call me Gram, gam, or ga. Can't get any simplier than that.
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Hi guys,
Use of the blog grid overview causes featured images not to show in the single blog post. As soon as I switch the blog page to another view the Featured Images does show in the single post. Is this a "bug" or do I need to use a workaround? I have made a screencast to show what happens: http://www.screencast.com/t/duHzMZp3
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PS Could the fact that I am using the Child theme as provided by Kriesi be of influence here?
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Please make sure that you choose Image post format and set Featured Image
Hi Yigit,
That worked! :-) Thank you!
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LISA NAPOLI: Imagine letting a total stranger into your house. We're not talking about Santa Claus. We're talking about home-swapping. Marketplace's Tess Vigeland says it's an increasingly popular way to vacation on the cheap.
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It costs $60 a year to join HomeExchange.com and after that there's basically no cost except transportation to your swapped home.
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Exchange websites do provide contracts to sign saying each party is responsible for paying, say, if somebody breaks a dish.
There's no money exchanged so most home insurance companies consider home swappers just guests. Still you should check with your insurer.
And then start swapping.
In Los Angeles, I'm Tess Vigeland for Marketplace.


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Pentagon Memorial Competition Finalists
Pentagon Memorial Competition Entries Selected as Finalists
NEWS TRANSCRIPT from the United States Department of Defense
DoD News Briefing Dick McGraw Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 1 p.m. EDT
(Announcement of the Pentagon Memorial Competition Entries Selected as Finalists. Also participating: Contest Juror New York Museum of Modern Art Chief Curator of Design and Architecture Terry Riley and Project Manager Carol Anderson-Austra.)
McGraw: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We're a little bit early, but I think we'll go ahead and start, since time is tight for us. My name is Dick McGraw, and this has nothing to do with my day job, those of you whom I know.
So we have some visiting German journalists in the back. "Guten Tag." (Off-mike greetings from German journalists.)
Shortly after the attack on the Pentagon a year ago, work was begun on the development of a Pentagon memorial. A site was chosen. A call went out around the world for ideas and proposals. A jury was selected. And that jury has narrowed 1,126 qualified proposals down to the six you see on these posters.
I'm not going to take any more time other than to introduce Mr. Terry Riley, who was selected by the jurors as their leader, if you will. Terry is the chief curator of design and architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Terry's going to spend a little bit of time on each of these proposals, and then we will take your questions to the extent that time allows. You know, the secretary of Defense has a press briefing in here at 1:30 promptly, so at 1:25 this stuff will be gone. So I'll cut you off at that time.
Riley: Thank you, Dick.
You all have reproductions of the boards in your press kits, so I'm going to try to do a very brief explanation of each scheme and leave as much time for questions as we can.
There's a specific site for this project, for this proposal -- proposed project. It is on the property between the east facade --
Mr. [?]: West.
Riley: -- west facade of the Pentagon, the site of the attack, and the expressway, which is a kind of boundary on the property. That's part of the information packet, as well.
In general, in terms of talking about all the schemes, we've looked at 1,100 proposals. As three days wore on, we moved closer and closer towards, I think, a kind of common understanding about what we were looking for, if not necessarily which specific projects we were looking for. There were 11 jurors. Six were artists or design professionals, and there were five people representing various constituencies: the families, the people related to the Pentagon in terms of family relationships or being on staff.
Anyway, we began to realize, I think, what a powerful effect or an influence that the Vietnam Memorial had on our own thinking. And to me, looking back, it's, I think, interesting to note how much that memorial has changed everyone's thinking about what a memorial is, whether it's architects and artists or the general public. And without making any direct comparisons, there were certain things, I think, are familiar to those who know the Vietnam Memorial. One is the kind of interactivity, if you want to call it that. I don't think it was designed as such, but if you do go there, because there is a name for each person, family members, friends have a place to go, and there's always bouquets of flowers or notes or some sort of interplay between the memorial and the visitors. Like the Vietnam Memorial, it's a kind of mixture of metaphors, some of which come from traditional military monuments, some which come from individual, more secular burial traditions, and it becomes a kind of interesting mix of those.
There's a tendency towards abstraction. I think the lesson of the Vietnam Memorial was that when a memorial is somewhat abstract, people of different faiths, different philosophies, different attitudes towards the war, can approach the monument and they can kind of find in it that which they are seeking to find.
And, of course, in this situation, a third or more of the victims were on the plane; they had nothing to do with the Pentagon or the military. And so it was -- and assuming -- we have no specifics -- varied and broad different religious or philosophical beliefs, we can't presume to do something more than provide a memorial that allows people to have those feelings which they, themselves, bring to the memorial.
Like the Vietnam -- again, there are others I could refer to, but since it's here and I'm sure you've all seen it, I just keep referring to it -- there seems to be an importance in the minds of not only the jury but many of the designers that somehow you have to create a way to express the communal sense of remembrance, the whole, as well as reserve some sort of space or some sort of way of remembering the individual as well. So there's a kind of back and forth between a larger memorial to the event and then the individual names or some other device which helps remember the individuals who died on that day.
So you have the packages -- you have these images in front of you, if you want to refer to them that way. There's also the boards and there is the PowerPoint, so it's fairly well covered. I think I might point to the boards, and you can then refer to whatever other information you have as you would like.
Again, the facade of the Pentagon; the point of impact was right there. Here you see the edge of the site curving around the expressway. All the projects happen in this area. This is the designated area for the memorial. This is a fairly recognizable, traditional form in a certain sense; it's a grove of trees. The visitors would pass on to this plinth, walk through the trees, and within the grove find this sculptural monument. The names are engraved on this. There is a kind of interplay between the solid of the memorial as well as the voids, and I think those voids in this case are very symbolic and important. So the whole is represented by the monument, and then the individual names.
As you can see, it is canted slightly. And what the designer did was rotate the orientation of the monument so it corresponded with the flight path of the plane as it came on impact. This was -- you know, the nature of this catastrophe obviously is something very hard for the families. This sort of a reminder of that path was seen to be something that people could accept intellectually. Some of the other schemes had a much more sort of, shall we say, almost too aggressive reflection of that.
Now, this is a two-stage competition, and if you read the text, you'll probably have some of the same problems we did understanding one aspect of this, which is that the monument as a whole consists of this piece, which is on the Pentagon site, but the concept -- and it's not exactly clear, and I think it means it's not exactly worked out in the architect's or designer's mind -- parts of the monument can be removed and placed either in the victim's hometown or with the family. Again, not very worked out, but we thought it's something we should encourage and see what they develop. So in other words, the monument actually expands and becomes not just in one place, but in many places.
The next scheme -- now, what's happening here is a lot of different pieces of information are being superimposed over one another. This is a site plan. This is really a graph. Now, this line doesn't actually exist; that's simply the borders of the site where the monument can go. The highway is here. And this -- it's like a state boundary between two states, I mean, there's a line somewhere but it's not an actual, physical line that you would see.
These monuments are arrayed from left to right as you're looking at them, by the age of the person that died. So the youngest, I believe, was a seven-year-old, or maybe younger, moving across to the eldest. It creates a kind of field. This is another type of civilian monument, a kind of cemetery, where each -- the whole is really the field created by the individual monuments. In this case they are cast metals. I think it's incorrect to call them benches, but they use that term so we would use it. Each bench has a name with a tree associated, and it rises up from the earth creating a kind of void below. There would be water, almost like a small reflecting pool, with light in each one. The images -- the details, I'm sure you can catch up there.
This image, and I think it's the last one of this, shows that light sort of rising up. Here the designer also tried to make some symbolic distinction; the ones facing the Pentagon were the people -- represent the people who died in the plane; the ones facing away from the Pentagon represent the victims that died in the Pentagon. And I think I mentioned also there's a tree planted by each one. So that's -- it's a kind of mixture of that metaphor of a field or a grove.
The next is -- (to staff) -- and the slide that just keeps going. I'm not looking, right? Okay.
Staff: Yeah. Don't look. Don't look.
Riley: Okay. I won't get distracted.
This -- again, the highway here, the corner of the Pentagon here -- this proposes a kind of, again, planted trees, with these paths and places of repose. The designer here proposed a reflecting pool with a kind of little island in it, if you will, with these small bridges that would allow visitors to walk across on to the memorial itself.
Now if you look at this image here, the -- it's recognizable, a certain kind of monumental character, very tall slabs of glass engraved with the names of the deceased. I would say a kind of familiar language in the sense of if you think of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier -- the broad, flat, abstract plane, with a very precise inscription. It sort of reminds me of that.
Now if you look at this image, you realize it's not just slabs of glass, though; it's actually a double wall. It's a kind of construction. And what's happening -- I'm not a scientist. I can't explain this exactly, but the principle is a rather domestic one. You know that if the air is hotter or cooler on one side of the glass than the other, condensation falls out, and the surface becomes covered with dew. It's called the dew point when there's -- when it reaches that point.
And the idea was that as each of these monuments became covered with dew, the family members or anyone could come and do whatever child does at school when they're bored, which is write their name or write a message on the glass. It's got this kind of poignancy. Of course, it disappears by the next day. It's not unlike a floral bouquet that's left and eventually, you know, dries and blows away.
It's not unlike, I also thought, the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, where people go, write a message on a little piece of paper and, you know, insert this fragile piece of paper between these massive blocks of stone. So it's a kind of interesting back-and-forth between something that's very permanent and something that's very transient.
The next is -- there's no site plan here, so all I can say is, it is in that area that it's supposed to be in. It's -- we assume.
It consists of a space that's created by a perimeter wall with a garden all the way around and covered with ivy. On the other side is a very tall, polished granite wall. In the center is this extremely long table. It has both, I think, in some ways, religious connotations, but in other ways very domestic, very secular.
There are these granite stools that represent -- one for each of every person that died. It looks almost like a zipper, it's so long, and that's to get every piece table. The table is used as a symbol of reconciliation, a place where one can go with one's thoughts about who died, and make peace, as it was, with memories, et cetera. I think very subtly and very interestingly, there's no view of the crash site, but the Pentagon itself is reflected in the glass -- or in the polished granite. So there is a kind of memory or ghost of the Pentagon, but not that sort of dead-on view that a lot of the family members found a little bit too aggressive.
You actually go down a ramp to get to this room. If you look at this little drawing here, this is a section, as if you cut right through it, and you can see that most of the memorial is just below grade. So in other words, once you get down into this memorial, you not only cannot see the Pentagon, you can't see the highway, you can't really see anything else but the sky. So there's a kind of transporting quality to it.
One turns around the corner and then walks up a ramp and that's the way out.
This, again, is one of these drawings that superimposes much information one on top of the other. You're looking at down here the plan. Again, this is much like a cemetery. It's a field where the memorial is really just the sum of the individual markers for each person. The designer used the metaphor of a flight recorder as a kind of device that retains memory, and this would be what the top view of one of those, these raised vertical markers would be. And the dotted lines represent its volume.
Within the marker there would be a mirror. There is a place where, if the family members desired, some object could be placed that was a reminder or symbol of the person that died, on the glass cover, words of the individual could be inscribed; and there's a kind of poetic thing, obviously, of looking down, the mirror reflecting the sky and the individual memento or words.
And the last is perhaps the most modest, in a certain sense, certainly in terms of scale, but I think it has a very important element to it that needs to be remembered. It's a kind of podium. It's a kind of truncated cone. And it's shunted -- the apex is shunted to one side so it's directionally oriented towards the Pentagon and the crash site. The names of all the victims are inscribed along the base of it.
And the designer referred to it as a democratic monument, in the sense that it's the pedestal, but the viewer, the visitor, is actually the person or the thing that occupies the pedestal. And so what you realize is that what the monument does is it places you in a position to look at the Pentagon to reflect on what happened, and it's protected by a grove of trees, so you're in your own, sort of, space. But really what it does is it creates the monument in your head. It positions you to reflect on what happened. And the monument then is suggestive and contemplative. And what's interesting, of course, is that when you leave the monument, you leave with the monument, with the memory. And it isn't so much about saying, "Oh, I went and saw it." It's something that you go and you experience.
It took a while to really grasp it. It's very simple. But once we did, we were very moved by it.
McGraw: We have people here from the Corps of Engineers who are managing the project. We have other jurors, professional consultants here. If you have questions, we'll be happy to take them for the next five minutes or so. Your press kits have all the information as well as the name of Mary Beth Thompson, who is the Public Affairs person for the Corps of Engineers in Baltimore, which is the unit that's managing this project. And I would urge you, if you have further questions or want to talk to people and interview jurors or whatever, to give Mary Beth a call. Her number is in there.
In the meantime, we will be happy to take your questions. Yes?
Q: Just curious if there are any budget considerations or budget constraints in this, what you're looking at and how it will be paid for. And also, where -- I know there's something that happens in December. When do you hope to get this thing off the ground, or decided on and off the ground?
McGraw: Carol Austra-Anderson? Anderson-Austra, excuse me.
Anderson-Austra: That's all right.
I'm the project manager for this project. And what we're doing is, as you know, having a two-stage competition. What happens now is that these competitors have about eight weeks to go back and develop these designs. They will come back with developed designs, get some technical input and help from the families as well, and then the jurors will meet again and select the one that they think is the best for the site.
When we actually start digging? We can't even tell you. We'd love to. Everyone wants that date. But depending on how complex the project is and how much work we have to do to do what we call construction documents, because what we have --
Q: Closer to the microphone.
Anderson-Austra: Okay. Sorry.
What we have to do is have the designer bring back their more- developed plan, and then we'll have to go through a construction document phase where how deep to dig is decided and what materials exactly are used is decided, and where you get them and how they're engraved. There are many, many details that will have to be worked out. After that, we will begin to dig.
Q: Are you looking at -- do you have a sort of a goal for picking the winning --
Anderson-Austra: Absolutely. We're looking now at mid- December. We may push that back just a little bit to give everyone a little bit more time to work on this. We're looking for at least early in the next year to begin working on our construction documents.
McGraw: To answer your question about the budget, there is no budget yet. When the Congress authorized the construction of the memorial in the '02 authorization bill, they did not appropriate any funds for it, but they did say that the funds could come out of the O&M budget and could come out of those monies contributed toward the renewal of the Pentagon and the construction of the memorial. So funds are there, but a budget hasn't been set yet.
Q: And have you set a cap?
McGraw: Not really. Really wanted to see what came in. I mean, what came in could have been $5 or $100 or a couple billion dollars. I mean, we really didn't know. So we didn't want to restrict anybody with arbitrary thoughts of numbers, large or small.
Anderson-Austra: It was important for the families. They said. the first time we met with them, they don't want something ostentatious. However, you can see from these designs, some are quite simple and could be less expensively constructed, and some are more complicated. So we're looking to see what we come up with.
Q: I'm wondering if you can give us some examples of what additional details they'll be submitting in a next phase?
Anderson-Austra: Well, one of the things we all noticed when we were working with the jury is that these don't have very well developed site plans -- how do you get to this site, and how does it really fit on the site. The designers were pretty careful about the constraints that we told them about, like there are some utilities, and this and that. But, you know, when you're engineering something, you have to figure out exactly how deep does the foundation have to be, exactly where do you get the stone, exactly how is it cut.
Q: How far will this be from the impact point, approximately?
Anderson-Austra: The border of this is 165 feet from the face of the Pentagon.
Q: And in what direction?
Anderson-Austra: It's right out -- it's parallel to that face of the Pentagon --
McGraw: This is the West face of the Pentagon, Charlie. This is the corner, Southwest corner.
Anderson-Austra: This is the flight path that the airplane --
McGraw: Carol, go to the microphone, please.
Anderson-Austra: Okay. That dotted line is the flight path. So you can see how they oriented that. And that is the West face. And the boundary of the site is parallel to the West face and 165 feet away.
Q: I have one question, what about the public opinion? Do the people in Washington have a chance to take part in this decision?
Anderson-Austra: Well, part of this -- we were on a pretty tight time frame for this, but we wanted to get as much input as we could, and one of the ways we did that, number one, we worked the families, the family group, right away. And we have two family members who were on the jury. And we also had the focus group, that's people with the Pentagon and the neighborhoods. And part of the point of having a competition was that anyone could enter. This was a project, with our time frame and with all the people who were interested, we really couldn't have town meetings everywhere all over the world. But we had 2,500 registrations, and they came from Georgia in Russia, Pakistan, the Solomon Islands, India, all over. And so it wasn't just local people, it was people all over the world who felt affected.
Q: How many did you get, including the ones that could not qualify for whatever reason?
Anderson-Austra: You know, I haven't counted the ones that didn't qualify, because if they weren't the right size or the right format, we just didn't have time to fool with them. I'll count them later. The ones who met the criteria were 1,126.
McGraw: We have time for just about two more questions, folks.
Anderson-Austra: Yes.
Q: I'm sorry, a point of clarification. You said 1,126 were qualified. But you said 2,500 registrations?
Anderson-Austra: Yes. We asked people to register their intent to send in a design.
Q: (Inaudible.)
Anderson-Austra: About half, right.
Q: Okay.
Q: Yes, has there been any discussion of pedestrian access to site?
Anderson-Austra: A lot. You probably know this is a difficult site. Anyplace around the Pentagon is difficult. If you're anywhere near that site now, you see groups of people coming off the Metro and walking there. So the Metro is the clear choice for how people could get there. We think there will be some parking supplied in the south parking or whatever. But those are things we'll have to work out later.
McGraw: Folks, I'm sorry. We have to cut this off. The secretary's got a press briefing. We need to get these slides out of here. But you have the press kit, and you have Mary Beth Thompson's phone number. I urge you to call her if you have further questions. Thank you.


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On a board in his Scotiabank Place office, Senators president Roy Mlakar has spent hours fine-tuning his team's schedule.
Yesterday, he was pleased with the finished product.
While Mlakar doesn't agree with the NHL's decision to play two fewer games (a total of six) against division rivals like Toronto and Montreal, there's not much he can do.
"It's well-balanced schedule for the fans and to me that's a good thing," said Mlakar. "I thought we should have played less inter-conference games and seven games against our division, but I didn't get the support."
Ticket pricing will be announced soon -- and there will be favourable adjustments, including reintroducing half-price games and special pre-season pricing.
"We've listened to the concerns of our fans, we've lowered some of the prices for our premium games, including games against Toronto. We've added more family games as well," said Mlakar.
Mlakar had the added pressure of trying to work around the 2009 world junior championships, which will be held in Ottawa around Christmas, and the CIS men's basketball tournament in March. With the club on the road during those dates, Mlakar wanted to make sure the proper amount of rest time was built in.
As a result, the Senators will only play three games in four nights 17 times, compared to last season when they faced that situation 23 times.
The longest road trip of the season will be during the Christmas break. The Senators begin an eight-city tour Dec. 23 in Philly. Then, on Boxing Day, they will head to Western Canada to face Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver.
After returning home on Dec. 31 to celebrate the New Year and take a break, the Senators will travel to Toronto Jan. 3, New Jersey Jan. 4, Buffalo Jan. 6 and Boston Jan. 8.
"There will be a chance for the players to come home during that stretch," said Mlakar. "I can't remember the last time we didn't play on Boxing Day, New Year's Eve or New Year's Day."
The Senators also have a five-game, seven-day road trip in February that includes stops in Minnesota, Nashville and Colorado, plus a six-game, nine-day tour in March that will played against Eastern Conference opponents.
- The Senators will face defenceman Wade Redden, who spent a decade here before leaving as a UFA July 1, for the first time Nov. 15 at Madison Square Garden. He will make his return to Ottawa Nov. 22, for a 3 p.m. game.
- While the Senators will open the season against Sidney Crosby and the Penguins Oct. 4-5 at the Globen Arena in Stockholm, Pittsburgh doesn't make its first visit to Ottawa until Dec. 6. League MVP Alexander Ovechkin and the Capitals will be here Nov. 4. The Senators will also play a pre-season game Oct. 2 in Gothenburg against the Frolunda Indians.
- Unlike the past couple of years when the Senators have had some 3 p.m. Saturday games, the only matinee appearance at home is against the Rangers. CBC's television schedule could change that.
- The Senators will open the pre-season Sept. 20 against the Rangers. The club travels to New York Sept. 22. Philly will visit Ottawa Sept. 24, while the Montreal Canadiens are here Sept. 27 in the final game before the Ottawa players pack up for Sweden.
- The Maple Leafs are in Ottawa for Nov. 27, Feb. 28 and March 9 games. The Senators will close their regular season April 11 in Toronto. The Canadiens are in town Nov. 20, Jan. 17 and March 19.
The Senators extended their broadcast agreement with the Team 1200 yesterday. "It's taken a long time, but we're coming off a 10-year deal which was two companies ago," said Mlakar. "CTV has taken over. We're just dealing with new lawyers and new people. Hockey has dominated the Team 1200. It was just a matter of time."


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Join us as we make our way to Melrose, known for the stunning ruins of Melrose Abbey, for a relaxing four-day getaway. We'll enjoy a festive holiday, exploring picturesque Melrose at leisure, as well as visiting the historical city of Edinburgh. Discover its many sights, and explore the superb Christmas markets, with its huge range of stalls.
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Day One - Home to Melrose
We'll make our way from the interchange to Melrose, where we'll check in to the Bay Waverley Castle Hotel and will enjoy a sumptuous evening meal. (D)
Days Two and Three - Melrose
We'll have a great time, with time to discover Melrose's many sights at leisure, as well as a trip to Edinburgh to discover this city's wonderful historical sights and the excellent Edinburgh Christmas Market. (B,D)
Day Four - Melrose to Home
Time to say goodbye today; we depart after breakfast and make our way to the interchange before returning home. (B)
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Today we'll enjoy an excursion to historical capital Edinburgh. Take some time to explore the magical winter wonderland of Edinburgh Christmas Market. Many of the activities are centred around the hustle and bustle of Princes Street and you can soak up the festive atmosphere as well as picking up a present or two!
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It wasn't as if all of the assassins in the world had never, even if somewhat, shyed away from where they were assigned targets before. But the sense of foreboding lingering around this place was on another scale, a beckoning aura that pulled you in and spat you out straight after. To this day, the twenty-third day of the celestial phase 'Vima', 5086, Riakmar continued his long term of bewilderment in the particular manner. He then dismissed the thought, walking on through the corridors, not even bothering to look back at those doors that allowed one to enter the building.
There weren't many doors about the interior, just the exit, the main office and two other doors probably leading to piles of folders and important papers. The walls were painted a bleached white, the paint noticeably wearing away from many nervous people scratching on it. There were no benches or chairs in the hallway, implying that every visit would be a lonely one. The exit and the doors to the main office were made of glass, surrounded by navy blue plastic. The other two being horrendously made from the wood of a Linapo tree, a cowering beige.
Riakmar gave a smirk as we walked past them. How anyone could be unsure of how their job, at the current point, would carry out, he didn't know. As he approached the double glazed doors of 'terror', he checked to see if his apparent businessman was there. The pale, black haired fellow was sitting somewhat contently in his grey chair, arms crossed, ready to pass over someone to murder. Riakmar nodded, walked inside and sat adjacent the wondrous man who caused horror to many people through personal workmen.
"I'm sure you're familiar with the process, Riakmar," The suited man started. "From what I've heard, many big people seem to...'favour' you." His bright hazel eyes were unmoving, what was expected of people like him these days.
"It seems you've heard them correctly, as many people can be unreliable," Riakmar took a breath. "People which die quickly." Acknowledging the man's failed attempt to hide his eagerness in the conversation, Riakmar stopped himself from giving a sly laugh.
"Well, I believe it's time to get down to business," Fumbling through a folder on his lap as he replied, his eyes never moving from the assassin. He then slapped two photos on the desk, Riakmar, assuming that these were the targets he was being assigned to, quickly studied them.
"Like most, they're probably not what they look like. Easy," Riakmar somewhat mocked them, his face being somewhat emotionless.
"You've probably been awaiting this question." He announced.
"I'm sure I have."
"Why?" The answering man faltered. It was as if he had the exact reply, yet paused between looking foolish and starting the sentence. He was lost. Riakmar reminded himself that this meant his 'boss' was warned of a long and touchy subject, or that he was frail and soft. The latter would be extremely dissapointing in someone who could possess great power in people.
"I'd rather not dwell into a long story on the account of such short time," Riakmar sounded a big gust of relief in his head. His faith in the man had returned.
"So what are their names?" He queried.
"Aénex Makander and Keámá Oritra," Riakmar stared down the photos for a few seconds. The names were fitting. If ever they were, the job would be challenging. He grunted.
"Not that you'd need to, but I advise to be cautious," The pale man warned. "These adversaries are powerful and wise, it may take a while to track them, even longer to eliminate."
Riakmar smirked. "Oh. I'm sure that they won't be a problem." After a pause, the man nodded at him, a sign that allowed him to leave. Riakmar then stood up, taking the two photos, and walked outside without uttering another word. He paced down the corridors once more, knowing that this wouldn't be the last time he would see them. He pushed the glass doors as far as they would go, and stepped onto burning, sunbathed sand. Riakmar looked up at the clouds. Aénex and Keámá. I'm coming. With that single thought he left the torn remains of the two photos, one boy, and one girl, on the doorstep of a large building filled with torment and disgust, and wallked away.
Aénex and Keámá.
He's coming...


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A day in the life of a Rothman orthopedic surgeon
The Rothman Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Bensalem, Pa. hosted the second annual Operation Walk USA on December 7. Operation Walk provides free hip and knee replacements to the uninsured and underinsured who are in critical need. Dr. Hozack's patient, Sandra Fanelli, and her identical twin sister Deborah both received hip replacements through the program. (Captions by Gillian Francella/Philly.com and Photos by Colin Kerrigan/Philly.com) Warning: this gallery contains images some viewers may find disturbing.


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It's no secret the Android Market can be a dangerous place. Despite Google's efforts to weed out harmful apps, there are always some that slip through the cracks. There are also plenty of apps that take advantage of unsuspecting users either for profit or for fun. Temple Ran is one of those apps that doesn't belong in the Android Market, but it has managed to become the 27th most popular free "game."
Temple Ran is meant to trick Android users who search the market for Temple Run. Temple Run is one of the most popular iOS games available right now. A real Android version of Temple Run is in the works, but it hasn't been released yet.
Temple Ran isn't even a game. It's just a stick figure that moves left or right. The app's developer, Pocket Games, is just trolling the Android Market. This developer even has more do-nothing apps in the Android Market as well.
The messed up thing is that Temple Ran has managed to get over 500,000 downloads since it was released at the beginning of the month. Surely people are just being suckered.
I hope Google realizes this app is intentionally misleading and a waste of everyone's time. Please get rid of it.
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Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani wasn't too fond of Beyonce's Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday night, saying that it was "really outrageous" that the singer used the opportunity to "attack police officers."
"I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers, who are the people who protect her and protect us and keep us alive," Giuliani said during a "Fox & Friends" segment on Monday morning.
He added, "What we should be doing in the African-American community and all communities is build up respect for police officers and focus on the fact that when something does go wrong, okay we'll work on that, but the vast majority of police officers risk their lives to keep us safe."
Overall, Giuliani said that he didn't like the halftime show, calling it "ridiculous" and proclaiming that he didn't "know what the heck it was."
"A bunch of people like bouncing around and doing strange things – it was terrible," he said. "I actually don't even know why we have this – this is football not Hollywood."
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As TheBlaze previously reported, Beyonce is capturing attention for controversial political messages that were embedded in her halftime performance, with critics and fans debating over her dancers presumably being dressed like Black Panthers and making a black power salute.
Performing her new song "Formation," Beyonce and her dancers were dressed in all black, wore black berets and, at one point, positioned themselves in an "X" on the field — something that some observers said was done in reference to Malcolm X, the Daily Mail reported.