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Pope's stunning resignation sends church scrambling
VATICAN CITY - With a few words in Latin, Pope Benedict VXI did what no pope has done in more than half a millennium, stunning the world by announcing his resignation Monday and leaving the already troubled Catholic Church to replace the leader of its 1 billion followers by Easter.
Not even his closest associates had advance word of the news, a bombshell that he dropped during a routine morning meeting of Vatican cardinals. And with no clear favorites to succeed him, another surprise likely awaits when the cardinals elect Benedict's successor next month.
"Without doubt this is a historic moment," said Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, a protege and former theology student of Benedict's who is considered a papal contender. "Right now, 1.2 billion Catholics the world over are holding their breath."
Continuing legacy?
The move allows for a fast-track conclave to elect a new pope, since the traditional nine days of mourning that would follow a pope's death doesn't have to be observed. It also gives the 85-year-old Benedict great sway over the choice of his successor. Though he will not himself vote, he has hand-picked the bulk of the College of Cardinals - who will elect his successor - to guarantee his conservative legacy and ensure an orthodox future for the church.
The resignation may mean that age will become less of a factor when electing a new pope, since candidates may no longer feel compelled to stay for life.
"For the century to come, I think that none of Benedict's successors will feel morally obliged to remain until their death," said Paris Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois.
Benedict said as recently as 2010 that a pontiff should resign if he got too old or infirm to do the job, but it was a tremendous surprise when he said in Latin that his "strength of mind and body" had diminished and that he couldn't carry on. He said he would resign effective 8 p.m. local time on Feb. 28.
"All the cardinals remained shocked and were looking at each other," said Monsignor Oscar Sanchez of Mexico.
The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said Benedict decided to resign after his March 2012 trip to Mexico and Cuba, an exhausting but exhilarating trip where he met with fellow-octogenarian Fidel Castro and was treated to a raucous and warm welcome.
As a top aide, Benedict watched from up close as Pope John Paul II suffered publicly from the Parkinson's disease that enfeebled him in the final years of his papacy. Clearly Benedict wanted to avoid the same fate as his advancing age took its toll, though the Vatican insisted the announcement was not prompted by any specific malady.
The Vatican said Benedict would live in a congregation for cloistered nuns inside the Vatican, although he will be free to go in and out. Much of this is unchartered territory. The Vatican's chief spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said he isn't even sure of Benedict's title - perhaps "pope emeritus."
Since becoming pope in 2005, Benedict has charted a very conservative course for the church, trying to reawaken Christianity in Europe where it had fallen by the wayside and return the church to its traditional roots, which he felt had been betrayed by a botched interpretation of the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
His efforts though, were overshadowed by a worldwide clerical sex abuse scandal, communication gaffes that outraged Jews and Muslims alike and, more recently, a scandal over leaked documents by his own butler. Many of his stated priorities as pope also fell short: He failed to establish relations with China, heal the schism and reunite with the Orthodox Church.
There are several papal contenders in the wings, but no obvious front-runner - the same situation as when Benedict was elected after the death of John Paul. As in recent elections, some push is expected for the election of a Third World pope, with several names emerging from Asia, Africa and Latin America, home to about 40 percent of the world's Catholics.
The Vatican stressed that no specific medical condition prompted Benedict's decision, saying he remains fully lucid and took his decision independently.
'Peace and quiet'
The last pope to resign was Pope Gregory XII, who stepped down in 1415 in a deal to end the Great Western Schism, a dispute among competing papal claimants. The most famous resignation was Pope Celestine V in 1294; Dante placed him in hell for it.
There are good reasons why others haven't followed suit, primarily because of the fear of a schism with two living popes. Lombardi sought to rule out such a scenario, saying church law makes clear that a resigning pope no longer has the right to govern the church.
When Benedict was elected in 2005 at age 78, he was the oldest pope chosen in nearly 300 years. At the time, he had already been planning to retire as the Vatican's chief orthodoxy watchdog to spend his final years writing in the "peace and quiet" of his native Bavaria.
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Two works of fiction have collided in my life this week, and the result of that jolting impact has been a few sleepless nights and this article.
The first is the Academy Award winning �Twelve Years a Slave.� The film provides a brutal and heart-rending account of an African-American man who was kidnapped in 1841 as a free man in New York and brought to Louisiana, where he was enslaved for 12 years and was subjected to such violent and degrading acts that while watching one wants to lose faith in humankind.
During this film I continually asked myself why we as a society did not stand up earlier to demand the end to this barbarous treatment. There must have been those, even in the Deep South, who recognized slavery as immoral. Why did they not do more, sooner?
I have also spent the past week reading �The Book Thief,� by Marcus Zusak. The book takes place in Nazi Germany during the reign of the Third Reich. One of the main characters, Hans Humbermann, is a quiet, unassuming painter who lives in Moluting, Germany. Hans is barely visible in his community, which is a good thing, because � without anyone noticing � he hides a Jewish citizen in his basement for two years.
One day, when the Nazis are marching Jewish prisoners through the streets on the way to Dachau, residents emerge from their homes and line the street to watch the procession.
They watched the Jews come down the road like a catalog of colors � I can tell you that that�s exactly what they were, for many of them would die �
Hunger ate them as they continued forward, some of them watching the ground to avoid the people on the side of the road. Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths. Others pleaded for someone, anyone, to step forward and catch them in their arms.
No one did.
Whether they watched this parade with pride, temerity, or shame, nobody came forward to interrupt it. Not yet.
Hans is watching the procession and sees one particularly piteous man who keeps falling, the �side of his face � flattened against the road,� and every time he falls, a soldier orders him to stand. He does so, shuffling forward as best as he can, and then falls again.
Just give him five more minutes and he would surely fall into the German gutter and die. They would all let him, and they would all watch.
Then, one human.
Hans Hubermann.
[He] reached into his paint cart and pulled something out. He made his way through the people, onto the road.
The Jew stood before him, expecting another handful of derision, but he watched with everyone else as Hans Hubermann held his hand out and presented a piece of bread, like magic.
I just stared at the page, a mixture of horror and joy swimming through me, knowing that this simple act was both a blessing for the man and a death sentence for Hans. Bless you, Hans Hubermann, but WHAT ARE YOU DOING????
Somehow, Hans knew that his small act could have a broad implication.
This small, simple act of compassion � which undoubtedly required immense bravery � reminds me of Jesus� parables in Luke 13 of the tiny mustard seed that a man faithfully sowed that, against great odds, eventually became a towering tree that nurtured a vibrant community of wildlife.
I hope that when confronted with the great odds fighting against us that each of us summons the courage needed to plant our tiny mustard seed, to do our part to ensure that our tree of life grows.
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jamesgray necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 184 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
BargainJack.com is a shopping site catering to guys who like gadgets, power tools, sports, video games, and beer. The demographic of this site is primarily male, ages 18 - 35. The site caters to this demographic with manly humor and a strong social community, with the host of the site, Jack, delivering deals on the various products that guys like. Jack is witty, informed, sarcastic, and funny. He's a man's man.
I'm going to guarantee this contest.
BargainJack.com is a social community for bargain shoppers. This site has been up and running for over 2 years. The main demographic is male, 18-35. These are guys that love high tech gadgets, sports, video games, and beer. They'll be spending their time on the site mostly looking for great deals on iPods, cell phones, computer systems and equipment, audio/video equipment, video gaming systems, high definition televisions, power tools, sports, camping, outdoors, barbecue grills, and more.
Along with the deals featured daily, there's also a featured deal of the day with a writeup by Jack, as well as a forum and blog that complete the social community experience.
This logo is part of the branding that will go into a complete redesign of the site. That means you should not be biased by the existing design of the site, but instead, should take a fresh new look at the image we're trying to portray. Don't worry about matching up color schemes, graphics, etc. with the existing site, we're scratching everything (other than the avatar graphic/image of Jack) and starting over!
BargainJack.com is supposed to be a fun site for guys. The blog write-ups regularly contain humor, so we're looking for a logo that represents this. In other words, the logo should be techie, fun, and interesting, and capture our branding at the same time.
Jack is the kind of guy you'd want to invite over to watch the game, or go to the bar. He's the kind of guy you'd discuss high tech gadgets with in-between politically incorrect jokes and guy humor. Jack is a gadget addict and a man's man.
Our brand is all about Jack. The logo should reflect Jack's traits and reinforce the brand as much as possible.
We didn't originally picture a logo including the Jack character, but if you do choose to include a Jack character, you may use the existing character from http://www.bargainjack.com...otherwise, make sure that the character you create is blonde. As the contest progresses, if we like the way that you used the existing Jack character, we can send you the vector file to incorporate into your logo, but for starters, please just use the jpg from our site.
- Please only use the phrase BargainJack, not BargainJack.com.
- You can use either bargainjack, BargainJack, or BARGAINJACK as the text. You should not stress the B and the J in the logo.
- Prefer a wide layout rather than a tall layout, as the primary purpose for the logo is for a web banner.
- We want a logo that essentially captures the branding experience of what BargainJack is all about--guys, high tech gadgets, sports, and fun.
- Should look good when scaled to various sizes, including blown up big for t-shirts or whatever other promotional materials we might need, or scaled down extra small for an icon.
- We definitely prefer a standalone icon, along with the text BargainJack, as part of the logo. This helps with the branding, and again can be used for various avatars or icons.
- Format:vector, with all possible layers intact, and would like one greyscaleversion of each, also in vector format. I will ask the winner where Ican find the font/s they used.
- Need formats that work with both a dark and light background. Picture a logo that could go on a black, grey, or white t-shirt and still be readable.
- Do not limit yourself to a logo that matches the existing site design. We're redesigning the site, and your logo will be the catalyst for the style and color palette of the new site redesign.
- No logos that are taller than they are wide.
- No pink or purple logos, or flowers, or any girlie stuff. This is a guy's site.
- Do not include .com in the logo.
- Do not put a space between Bargain and Jack, it's one word. An icon or something between the two words is fine, but don't put an intentional blank space.
- Don't capitalize the B in BargainJack if you're not also going to capitalize the J. Bargainjack = bad. BargainJack, bargainjack, or BARGAINJACK = good.
- Please don't use the letters B and J as a major focus of the logo. We also have a site called BargainJill for women, and since the initials are the same, we don't want the logo to focus on the initials.
- Please don't use a UPC code as a major element of the logo. One of our competitor's logo is based on a UPC code and we don't want to look like we're copying.
- No overly thin fonts that are too hard to read when scaled down.
- No complex fonts or images that look bad when scaled down.
- Noclipart, no iStockPhoto, no copying other designers' work here orelsewhere on the web, and please let us know if you see anythingsuspicious.
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Monon Bell Tickets Going Fastby Jim Amidon • October 24, 2005 Share:
Wabash's tickets for the 2005 Monon Bell Classic are going fast.
Wabash Bookstore manager Mike Bachner said brisk sales over the weekend have left the College with approximately 320 tickets as of noon Monday.
Tickets are available from the Wabash Bookstore during normal business hours for $10 per ticket. Tickets are also available on the college's online bookstore site (a $1 postage and handling fee is charged for Internet orders).
The 112th meeting between Wabash (7-0) and DePauw (5-1) will be a sellout. The game will be played on Saturday, November 12 at 1:00 p.m. at Greencastle's Blackstock Stadium. The game will be televised on DirecTV Channel 321.


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USC professor explains what gamification can — and can't — do for your agency.
With 'gamification' reaching buzzword status in private industry, more government agencies are exploring how to use game thinking and game mechanics to solve problems and engage citizens and employees.
Doug Thomas, an associate professor in USC's Annenberg School for Communication, says gamification can be an effective tool for some tasks — but it's far from a silver bullet. For instance, gaming principles can be used to boost innovation within organizations, according to Thomas, who spoke Wednesday (Aug. 21) at Government Technology's GTC West conference in Sacramento, Calif.
But careful attention must be paid both to the design of the game and the payoff for participants. Thomas also pointed out two common gamification pitfalls: underestimating the difficulty of creating an engaging game and applying the technique to the wrong type of task.
Creating a good game is extremely hard — even for professional game designers — so agencies shouldn't assume they can build one without help, Thomas says. "Don't give game design to someone who isn't a game designer." And gamification can't change the nature of dull, repetitive tasks. Applying game mechanics to these activities doesn't make them fun, he says, it only makes them take longer to accomplish.


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The Labyrinth
Many curious explorers wander into the ancient underground structure known only as The Labyrinth. Some return to tell stories of horrific bestial screams that echo through its corridors. Those who investigate further have a habit of not coming back.
The Labyrinth
This is one of the most twisted dungeons in the game, often barring further exploration with tough monsters. Generally speaking, the weakest monsters are near the center of the labyrinth and the stronger monsters in the outer-most portion. Since most strategies need to seek stronger foes early, this make it difficult to gain bonus XP. Worse, once you do start to encounter the stronger foes, you may have precious few tiles left to explore. Using Binlor's boons, ENDISWAL, PISORF, or any kind of knockback to punch holes in the Labyrinth walls can make this dungeon considerably easier to navigate and win. If you're not interested in using knockback, the Titan Guitar is a fantastic locker preparation for this dungeon.
Monster difficulty is 130%.
There are two bosses in the Labyrinth. One of them is chosen randomly, and the other is "Rex" the Minotaur. Once Rex has been discovered, he will chase you around the dungeon. Every time you kill a monster, he will appear next to you, potentially trapping you. Rex will never appear at a diagonal; he will always appear beside, above, or below you. Use this to position yourself to ensure a safe escape. If you do not discover Rex early enough, he will eventually come and seek you out after you've killed enough monsters.
Rex has relatively high attack damage, and he berserkers when his health gets low enough, pushing that damage even higher. However, his hit points are sub-par and he has no magic resistance. This makes him incredibly weak to a spellcaster. Anyone with the BLUDTUPOWA glyph and sufficient unexplored tiles can easily kill him just with hit-and-run BURNDAYRAZ attacks. The greater difficulty will be navigating the labyrinth to do so, and uncovering Rex early enough.
Rex starts following you either if you uncover him, or after exactly 20 kills, whichever happens first.
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With the spellcasting power to turn Rex into a smoking crater, and a large "bank" of extra healing from his blood pools to deal with the other boss, the Bloodmage is a superb class for this level. Be sure to prepare the fireball magnet so that you begin with the BURNDAYRAZ glyph. Due to the nature of the labyrinth, you may have trouble finding it. Elf or Gnome make good choices for someone focusing on the spellcasting route, while Human and Orc work well for those who want to focus more on a hybrid.
Using his CYDSTEPP ability, the Warlord can continue to effectively fight with Rex even after he's gone berserk. This makes the Warlord a reliable melee-specialist class for taking on this dungeon. The Orc or Gnome races are recommended.
A good spellcasting class like the bloodmage, but somewhat less reliable due to the fact that he does not begin with the BLUDTUPOWA glyph. His glyph sense, however, allows him to quickly find other useful spells from within the dungeon. With good preparations, the wizard is a reliable pick.
As most of the monsters in this dungeon - including Rex - deal physical damage, the Paladin is a reliable class for The Labyrinth. Improving his resistances further via items or boons can make fighting the monsters in the dungeon easy. Consider prepping a god like Binlor or Dracul to this end (Binlor also guarantees PISORF / ENDISWAL to avoid getting stuck).
The only quest in The Labyrinth is Muu..., which requires one to defeat The Labyrinth with the Fighter, Berserker, and Warlord. Completing this quest will unlock Dragon Isle and give 500 gold. As noted above, the Warlord is well suited to this dungeon. The other two classes will take more extensive strategies and a good deal of luck to beat.


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For those who worship their hoagies at the altar of the sandwich press, there may not be a more perfect creation than the Cuban sandwich.
A concoction of ham, roast pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard stuffed into crunchy, buttered bread, it's toasted in a sandwich press until its filling steams and its flavors fuse together, resulting in a warm, thin, crispy sandwich whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Cuban Foods Bakery & Restaurant on the city's west side makes a formidable Cuban sandwich. Larger than those you may have had elsewhere, the plate-size sandwich is juicy and a little garlicky, and the golden brown bread maintains its crispiness even as it soaks up the well-balanced mix of ingredients within. I maintain it's best consumed (like its relative, the Media Noche sandwich) with a cold, bracing glass of Malta, preferably mixed with condensed milk to gives the molasses-tasting soft drink a creamy texture and an aroma of corn flakes.
A Formidable Cuban Sandwich and More on Phoenix's West Side
Cuban Foods Bakery 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday
Tostones rellenos: $4.49
Sandwich Cubano: $6.95
Lechn asado: $8.49
Ropa vieja: $7.99
"I have a bakery make the bread for my Cuban sandwich," says Cuban Foods owner Manuel Hernandez. "It's modeled after the bread they use for Cuban sandwiches in Miami. And, of course, I make the pork here."
Hernandez, along with some of his family, came to Phoenix seven years ago, part of an exodus to the United States that Cubans have been making ever since their 1959 revolution. He opened his small, tidy restaurant with a handful of tables in a west-side strip mall in January 2012. The fact that there are two baked-goods cases in the space is no mistake. Although he's responsible for the restaurant's scratch-made cooked dishes, Hernandez considers himself a baker first. At 18, he started working at a bakery in his hometown of Havana, learning not just the art of Cuban desserts, but of French pastries as well.
"I can make a very good croissant," he says. "But here, I make sure everything is 100 percent Cuban."
Hernandez calls his food simple, but a better definition might be homestyle. Well-prepared and hearty, it's gratifying in a fried-and-meaty kind of way. The Cuban sandwich is almost a rite of passage here, but there are other good dishes, too: Slow-cooked meats redolent with garlic, onions, and cumin; stuffed, crumbly cups of fried plantains; and seasoned black beans and rice flecked with onions, peppers, and bits of pork. The Cuban-style desserts — flan, flaky pastries filled with tropical fruits, and bread pudding flavored with guava — that Hernandez makes each morning may be sweeter than what you're used to, but they make for a satisfying ending to the meal all the same.
For a very good snack or starter, you'll want the tostones rellenos. Featuring plantains that are gently fried, smashed, shaped into cups, then fried again, the crunchy golden vessels can be bulked up with puffy shrimp, ropa vieja, or luscious pieces of ham in a seasoned tomato sauce topped with a slice of Swiss cheese. And if you're after meat and potatoes in an easy-to-eat package, you'll want the papas rellenas. The size of baseballs, these two golden orbs of fried filled potatoes are crispy on the outside, creamy within, and contain a seasoned beef reminiscent of a sloppy joe.
If you've come for a more traditional Cuban meal, as many of the restaurant's Cuban, Colombian, and Puerto Rican patrons regularly do, there are several that will do the trick. Heaped upon plates, they're served alongside rice and beans and a simple lettuce and tomato salad drizzled with olive oil and vinegar and sprinkled with salt.
There is a massive pollo a la plancha, or grilled chicken breast, moist and thin with a delicate seasoning of garlic and lemon and a topping of grilled onions. Better is the popular Cuban pork dish lechón asado. Garlicky and a touch sweet, the slow-cooked meat is meltingly tender, and its thick sliced pieces harbor a luscious layer of fat under crispy skin. The ropa vieja, the Cuban specialty whose name (Spanish for "old clothes") comes from its stringy shreds of meat, peppers, and onions, is about as good as it gets. Featuring frayed strands of beef in a tomato-based sauce layered with garlic, onions, green peppers, cumin, and wine, bites of this meaty, well-seasoned stew get even better with black beans and rice on the fork.
In the area of seafood, the canciller, a large and lightly breaded fillet stuffed with ham and cheese and served with crispy plantains, could easily be a candidate for most interesting fish and chips. Sadly, the quality of the fish takes it out of contention.
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There are noteworthy specials, too. Listed as available only on the weekends, most need to be called in ahead of time, but (bonus) Hernandez will prepare them any day of the week with enough notice.
His version of arroz imperial, a comfort food dish of chicken, rice, ham, corn, garlic, onions, and red peppers, is basically a casserole by way of a Cuban kitchen. And thanks to its secret ingredient — mayonnaise — it becomes, as one of my dining partners so eloquently stated, "like crack for Midwesterners."
The centerpiece of the specials, however, is the pollo relleno, a true feast and one you'll need the help of a few hungry carnivores to consume. Hernandez stuffs a whole chicken with ham and cheese, seasons and paints it in butter, then roasts it, for something akin to the Cuban version of chicken cordon bleu. Finding the slices of buttery baked potatoes, hidden under the chicken's ringed garnish of lettuce and tomatoes, makes for additional mealtime entertainment.
With the exception of the occasional Cuban music coming out of speakers and a humming cooler filled with soft drinks like Malta, Materva, and Jupiña, Cuban Foods could be any restaurant. Inside the small wood-paneled room there are kitschy salt-and-pepper shakers on the tables and artwork of French bistros on the walls. Even the exterior sign still reads Bisteces, the name of the Mexican restaurant once occupying the space. But then there is the food and the friendly servers who not only take the time to guide you through the dishes but, like Hernandez, say hello and goodbye as well. They make what isn't Cuban about Cuban Foods hardly matter at all.


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An ALMA View of Supernova 1987A
This is an image of the intricate remains of Supernova 1987A taken in submillimeter wavelengths by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile. The red color shows newly formed dust in the center of the supernova remnant.
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Dracula Notes & Analysis
The free Dracula notes include comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. These free notes consist of about 63 pages (18,811 words) and contain the following sections:
These free notes also contain Quotes and Themes & Topics on Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Dracula Plot Summary
Dracula begins with the journal of Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor on the way to Transylvania to give information to the mysterious Count Dracula about his new estate in London. Dracula takes the young man prisoner, and Jonathan sees many strange and evil things in the castle before escaping and fleeing into the night. He later decides that he must have been mad.
Meanwhile, back in England, Jonathan's fiancée, Mina, is visiting her friend Lucy. Lucy has just decided to marry the Honorable Arthur Holmwood, having had to choose between him and his two friends Dr. John Seward and Quincey Morris, the Texan. Dracula, who is moving to London to feast on more humans, happens to land in the part of England where Mina and Lucy are staying. His first victim is Lucy.
Dr. Seward, who, by coincidence, runs the insane asylum next door to Dracula's primary London home, tries to treat Lucy's 'illness.' He calls in from Amsterdam his friend and mentor Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Van Helsing figures out what is wrong with Lucy, but cannot save her. By this time, Jonathan has made it home to England and is happily married to Mina.
Van Helsing brings together Mina, Jonathan, Arthur, Quincey, Seward and himself and convinces everyone of the reality of vampires and the danger of this particular one, who was in his human life a great warrior and thinker. They have already destroyed the undead Lucy, and they likewise set out to destroy Dracula.
They educate themselves in the strengths and weaknesses of the vampire, and learn through careful and clever research what Dracula's plans are. Dracula has many lairs throughout London; they decide to sterilize them all to strand Dracula in his weakest form and then to kill him in the name of God. The Count, however, has other plans, and as the men search his houses he attacks Mina in the night, feeding her with his blood so that she will become a vampire, too.
The men find out about Dracula's activities and step up their efforts. They manage to drive him out of England, but realize that if they fail to finish the job then Mina will become a vampire anyway. They follow his trail to Transylvania, where he and his faithful gypsies manage to keep outwitting them. Finally, minutes before he reaches his castle, the entire team descends upon him while he is being transported in his box of Transylvanian earth. Jonathan and Quincey kill him, though not before Quincey himself is mortally wounded. With Mina free from her fate, the rest return to England and remain lifelong friends.


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Although perhaps a bit depressing to discuss, the topic of burial records and gravestones are frequently very important when doing research into Jewish genealogy. Indeed, while finding gravestones of your relatives can be important for any genealogist, they are even more important for Jewish genealogists due to the information frequently present on Jewish gravestones. Jewish gravestones can sometimes provide the missing link one needs to connect different families together, in particular because the name as written in Hebrew on graves is usually written in patrilineal fashion – NAME son/daughter of FATHER's NAME. As such, finding the grave of someone you are researching can take you back one more generation. When trying to identify what happened to all the siblings of an ancestor, for example, the father's name on the grave can help you confirm whether the gravestone you found is of a sibling or just someone with the same name.
This is the second article in the JewishGen Basics series. See last month's article on the JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) here.
In some cases, the gravestone will also have information on the person's town of birth, the person's profession, and whether a man was a Cohen or Levi. Sometimes this information is not even portrayed in the text on the gravestones, but in symbolic art, such as the hands of the Cohen held as is done during the Birkat Cohanim prayer. For more information on some of the symbols used on gravestones, see my article on Jewish Gravestone Symbols.
One thing to keep in mind when looking at gravestones is to realize that not everything you find written on a gravestone is necessarily, well, written in stone. For example, my great-great-grandfather's gravestone wrote that he was from Reisha (Rzeszow) and indeed he did live there for many years, but if you took it to mean that he was born in Reisha, you'd be searching fruitlessly for a long time. In other cases the dates on a gravestone, in particular any listed birth dates, can frequently be wrong. Even the date of death can be wrong (don't forget that gravestones were generally erected a year after the death).
JewishGen hosts a very important database for those trying to find Jewish graves, called the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (or JOWBR for short). The JOWBR database contains more than 1.5 Million records of graves worldwide. You can view a list of all the cemeteries that make up the database.
The JOWBR database includes many graves that no longer exist. Many Jewish cemeteries were destroyed in Europe by the Germans (and their allies) during WWII, and ten of thousands of graves were destroyed by the Jordanians on the Mt. of Olives between 1948 and 1967, yet when records of these graves that were destroyed exist on paper somewhere, JOWBR tries to integrate these historical records as well.
For example, in the case of the Mt. of Olives, a book was published in 1913 which contained information on over 8,000 graves on the Mt. of Olives, many of which were destroyed subsequently by the Jordanians. That book was turned into a database by the Israel Genealogical Society (IGS) and those graves with names were later integrated into JOWBR as well, so even if you were not aware of the IGS database, you would still find the results in JOWBR.
One important thing to know about the JOWBR is that it does not accept individual grave submissions, but rather only accepts whole cemeteries or cemetery sections. If, for example, a local Jewish genealogical society wants to submit information on local Jewish cemeteries to the database, they need to create a list of all the graves in each cemetery they want to submit. There is no way to submit individual gravestone information. In this way, the database is very different from general gravestone database sites like FindAGrave.com (see my article on FindAGrave.com here) and BillionGraves.com which revolve around individual gravestone records. This is done to ensure the quality of submissions and ensure that no duplicate submissions are made.
So how does it work?
Start by going to the JOWBR page, which should look something like this:
|JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR)
Searching the database will return a list of regions where results were found (similar to other JewishGen searches), with the number of results shown for each region. In the US a region would be a state, while in Europe it might just be a metro area. Each regional set of results has a button to the right that you can click on which will return the actual results with names, dates, etc. As mentioned, to see the actual results you will need to be logged into JewishGen. If you are not logged in, you will be given the opportunity to log in and then be shown the results.
What information you find depends obviously on the quality of the information submitted. In many cases the gravestones are worn, partially buried, or damaged, and cannot be fully read. You may only have a first name, or only a last name, etc.
Other Related Sites
I want to add that while 1.5 million graves is a lot, JOWBR is not the only database out there with Jewish graves. Indeed there are many other smaller efforts that exist for specific regions, or even single cemeteries.
One of the largest of these alternate sites is JewishData.com which has over 500,000 records across the United States and some other countries like Canada, Germany and Israel. Records in the US come from CA, CT, IL, NJ, NY, OR, PA, VT and WI. Although JewishData.com is a commercial site, searches are free. If you find a match, then you can buy a 3 month subscription so you can access the records, or find a library or musuem that has access to the site (such as the Center for Jewish History in NY City).
In England, the web site CemeteryScribes.com and its sister site SynagogueScribes.com have burial records which are searchable.
In Israel, the Mt. of Olives has its own project to restore the cemetery and create an online index to all the graves. On www.mountofolives.co.il there is a searchable database which is usable in English, Hebrew and Russian. Note that this database is not nearly complete yet, and it has strange technical requirements – basically Internet Explorer on Windows with other add-ons. Hopefully they will make the database more accessible in the future. Some cemeteries, or more usually the Hevre Kadisha (burial societies) that service them, offer online searchable databases of graves. One good example of this is the Chevre Kadisha for Tel Aviv which covers six cemeteries in the Tel Aviv area. The site is available in Hebrew, English, French and Russian, although if you have trouble guessing the English spelling of a name (since the names are all originally in Hebrew) you can try using Stephen Morse's English to Hebrew Transliteration tool to output the Hebrew and then copy and paste it into the Chevre Kadisha site. For more information on Israeli cemetery records, see the Israel Genealogical Society's page on Burials in the State of Israel.
Throughout the United States there are smaller databases available, and they pop up all the time so even if you've tried to search in the past, you should take a new look. One good resource for finding online cemetary databases in the US is the DeathIndexes.com web site. Using Google you can search the site (which has no built-in search) for Jewish records by searching Google for:
site:http://www.deathindexes.com/ Jewish
This will search for the word Jewish on all the pages of the site. If you're looking for a cemetery in a specific state, then add the name of the state to the search. I wrote about using this site, and a cemetery database I found on it from South Carolina in an article on my blog called People lie, and so do documents, where I use the records in the cemetery database to help confirm the correct date that someone died (since two separate obituaries listed different dates).
Just last week an article was published in the New Haven Independent newspaper on efforts to maintain Jewish cemeteries in New Haven, CT and to create a searchable database online.
Sometimes Jewish cemetery information can take less usual forms, such as the blog Lomza Virtual Jewish Cemeteries which contains photos and information from two cemeteries in Lomza, Poland. Another blog called Kevarim.com has information on the grave sites of famous rabbis. The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon has a PDF file of burials are available on their web site.
Last but not least, the IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project is a web site that collects information on every Jewish burial place worldwide (but not the actual burials). You won't find names of people buried in the locations, but if you want information on specific cemeteries, or want to find out what cemeteries exist or did exist in a particular town, this is a great web site.
Contributing to JOWBR
If you are involved in collecting information on Jewish graves, such as digitizing the burial records for a local cemetery, you should consider contributing the information to the JOWBR database to insure others searching for their family members will be able to find the information on their relatives. For information on submitting data to the JOWBR database, see their Submitting Data to JOWBR page.
If you search through the list of cemeteries and find that a local Jewish cemetery (or cemetery section) near you is not listed, consider organizing a project to photograph and create an index to all the graves and contributing them to JOWBR. I recommend doing this under the auspices of your local Jewish genealogical society.
Philip Trauring is the author of Blood and Frogs: Jewish Genealogy and More, a site where you can find out about general genealogy techniques and how to apply them to your Jewish genealogy. Philip can also be followed on Twitter at twitter.com/bloodandfrogs and on Facebook at facebook.com/jewishgenealogy.


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In every important respect Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election was a victory for racism. First there was the racist claim that his skin color made his election somehow significant for black Americans with whom he otherwise shares no common moral or historical heritage. Second, his stubborn advocacy of the parent's right to murder her child made it a victory in principle for the racist notion that "inferior" physical development leaves people with no rights that must be respected by their supposed betters. Third, the US Constitution has been openly set aside on account of fears that racist violence would result from investigating the facts regarding his citizenship at birth (lest they support the conclusion that he is constitutionally ineligible to serve as President of the United States.) Truth, right and the Constitution all sacrificed for the sake of racist fears and premises.
The reaction in some quarters to the Sotomayer selection smacks of the same racist mentality. "Janet Murguia, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, called Sotomayor's nomination 'a monumental day for Latinos. Finally we see ourselves represented on the highest court in the land.'" There was a time when we understood that those who served on the Supreme Court had first and foremost to prove that they represented the whole people of the United States, whose sovereign will constitutes the legitimacy of the Constitution it is their duty to uphold. The notion that someone would serve as the representative of this or that race or special interest tended to disqualify them from service.
Of course, a person proposed for a seat on the bench can't be held responsible for how others see her. But in a speech she reportedly gave in 2001 "Sotomayor has said that personal experiences "affect the facts that judges choose to see….I simply do not know exactly what the difference will be in my judging…but I accept that there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage."
If her assessment of herself was correct, her own words disqualify her from serving on the Supreme Court. Unless we mean to overturn the whole idea of Constitutional government, the decisions of the justices of the Supreme Court should be based on the Constitution and the laws. No justices can be allowed to "accept" judgments based on gender or ethnicity. If they do, what becomes of the promise of liberty and justice for all, of equal rights and the equal protection of the law?
Does the notion that it's somehow acceptable to disregard the Constitution on account of race in Obama's case now make it acceptable to confirm as a Supreme Court Justice someone willing to allow their ethnic identity to distort their judgment of facts, and the basis for their decisions? Tragically, this is exactly the racist legal culture we would expect to result from the racist political mentality the Obama faction exploited to achieve his electoral victory.
Unity is always on their lips, but their hearts are far from it. Instead of a national government that represents our common heart for justice and liberty, the Obama faction means to create a fractured reflection of all our differences, until we forget how to see, think and act as Americans, regardless of those differences. With this dissolution of the American identity they prepare the way for the dissolution of the United States itself, so that a strong sense of our national identity no longer poses an obstacle to their plans for a new, global regime that sets aside our "provincial" concerns with right and ordered liberty.
Of course, those concerns are precisely what raise our national consciousness above the level of mere group selfishness, so that our concern for the good of our nation becomes a concern for the rights and decent freedom of all humanity. The sacrifices we commemorate every Memorial Day are marked by headstones and memorials in far flung corners of the globe where Americans gave ultimate proof that this concern is no pious abstraction. But it seems that what they died to preserve for others, we are now quietly surrendering ourselves under the mesmerizing influence of racist fears and lies.
Such is the change Obama represents. But where is the hope in it, except for those who succeed, as he did, by invoking the power of the very evil their success has supposedly overcome? "Racism is dead," they seem to say, "Long live the tyranny of race."


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NEW YORK (AP) The New York Mets have agreed to a minor league contract with outfielder Marlon Byrd, who served a 50-game suspension last season after testing positive in June for a performance enhancing drug while he was a free agent.
An NL All-Star in 2010, Byrd was traded from the Chicago Cubs to Boston Red Sox on April 21. Boston released him on June 12. Two weeks later, MLB announced he tested positive for Tamoxifen, which can reduce side effects of steroid use and increase testosterone.
Byrd hit .210 in 47 games for Boston and Chicago last season, and has hit .278 in 11 big league seasons with 82 homers and 445 RBIs.
The 35-year-old gives the Mets another potential option in the outfield, an area in which they are considered to be very weak. This offseason they cut ties with Jason Bay and lost center fielder Andres Torres, who signed with San Francisco, and Scott Hairston, who appears headed to the Cubs.


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Always Check Your Child's Homework...
After it was graded and the child brought it home, she returned to school the next day with the following note:
Good advise, indeed!
Dear Ms. Davis,
I want to be very clear on my child's illustration. It is NOT of me on a dance pole on a stage in a strip joint. I work at Home Depot and had commented to my daughter how much money we made in the recent snowstorm. This photo is of me selling a shovel.
Mrs. Harrington


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Top theories why Solange allegedly attacked Jay Z
There's one mystery that has an even bigger impact on the world than global warming or that dark spot on the sun. We're talking about the Knowles-Carter family drama. While scientists trade theories about the melting Antarctic ice, the rest of the world has been coming up with theories as to why Beyonce's sister Solange attacked Jay Z in the elevator during the Met Gala on May 5. (And for the record, it's 2014. When are surveillance cameras going to get sound?) Here are a few of our favorites:


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Batgirl may not make her first official outing in her new outfit until this fall, but in his latest Batgirl/Supergirl fan comic, the wonderful Mike Maihack has Batgirl chasing Harley Quinn in her new duds—at least until Supergirl shows up to admire her wardrobe.
If you happen to be attending San Diego Comic-Con this week, Maihack will be on the Panels & Pictures panel at noon on Sunday, and he'll be signing at table AA09 afterward.
[Mike Maihack via ComicsAlliance]